Quotes about Justice
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
- George Washington
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
- Thomas Jefferson
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
- Samuel Johnson
If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.
- Francis Schaeffer
Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
- Barack Obama
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.
- Alexander Hamilton
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
- Thomas Jefferson
It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.
- Giles Fraser
[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.
- John Adams
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.
- Thomas Jefferson