justice Quotes

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.

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

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.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

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.

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

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

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

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