Justice Quotes
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.
In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.
The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.
There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.
When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.
Will a nominee embrace and uphold the essential meaning of the four words inscribed above the entrance of the Supreme Court building: Equal justice under law?
Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.
I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.
We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!
People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.
God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.
But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.
Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.
I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.
Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.
I did The Commish and an episode of Neon Rider, and then I got the series called Street Justice, which I ended up doing about 18 episodes of.
The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.
I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.
If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it.
A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not, on another occasion, indulge its own will.
When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.
Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.
I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.
I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of the 21st century.
We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.
The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.
In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law was equal for all, not the strong win and the weak lose.
When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.