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

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

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

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.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

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

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

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Racism is real in this country.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

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.

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

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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

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.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

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.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

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

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.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

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

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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

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.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

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.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

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.

The FBI should not be a political body.

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.

Freedom is not enough.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

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.

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.

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

A right delayed is a right denied.

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.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.