justice Quotes

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.