Justice Quotes

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

The big tyrants never face justice.

The Pledge of Allegiance says, "liberty and justice for all".

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.