Quotes about Justice
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
— Joseph Addison
All men are created equal.
— Thomas Jefferson
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.
— David Jeremiah
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
— Albert Schweitzer
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
— Aristotle
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
— Ayn Rand
Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
— Edmund Burke
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
— Edmund Burke
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
— Epicurus
A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.
— Frederick Douglass
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
— Grover Cleveland