justice Quotes

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.