justice Quotes

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.