justice Quotes

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.