Justice Quotes

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

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

Justice deferred is justice denied.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Oh, justice is what you're threatened with.

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.

Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it.

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

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.

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!