Quotes about Justice
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
— Calvin Coolidge
A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.
— Thomas Jefferson
Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.
— Joseph Campbell
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
— Edmund Burke
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.
— Nelson Mandela
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
— Abraham Lincoln
In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.
— Pope John Paul II
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.
— Herbert Hoover
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
— John Quincy Adams
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
— John Tillotson