Quotes about Justice
Let the punishment match the offense.
- Cicero
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
- Thomas Paine
When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
- Elizabeth Fry
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.
- William Wallace
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
- Malcolm X
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
America is best described by one word, freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- Thomas Jefferson
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
- Brigham Young
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
- James A. Garfield
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
- Frederick Douglass