justice Quotes

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.