I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state… when you go to war, it can’t be a half-step.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

All men hate the nagging.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

Debates, I hate.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Law is always better than war.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.