Quotes related to Proverbs 21:3
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
- Confucius
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.
- James Madison
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
- St. Augustine
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
- Desmond Tutu
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
- Frederick Buechner
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
- John Quincy Adams
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
- Ronald Reagan
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
- Benjamin Disraeli