justice Quotes

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.