To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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.

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 man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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

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.

I am a just man.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

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

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Freedom is not enough.

It is right to give every man his due.

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

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

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

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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.‘

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.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

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

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

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.

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

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

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

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

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

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

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

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

A right delayed is a right denied.

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

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.

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

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

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

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.