It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of ‚em.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

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

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Just because you’ve seen ‚My Cousin Vinny‘ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

More law, less justice.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

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

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.

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.

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

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he’s very funny and very smart.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Law is always better than war.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

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

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

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

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

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

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

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.