Quotes about Justice

In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice.

Injustice never rules forever.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.

One with the law is a majority.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.