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

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I’m prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

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

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

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

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

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

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

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

I love being in a courtroom.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

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.

Justice is truth in action.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

More law, less justice.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.