justice Quotes

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

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

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

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

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.