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.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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.

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

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.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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

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

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

I love being in a courtroom.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

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

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

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

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

Clever tyrants are never punished.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

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

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

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.

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

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

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.

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.

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.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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.‘

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

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.

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.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

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’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

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

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

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.

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

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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.

Effective action is always unjust.

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

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.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

A precedent embalms a principle.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.