justice Quotes

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

The law is reason, free from passion.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.