Quotes about Justice
When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men.
- Thomas Monson
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
- Bill Gates
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
- Desmond Tutu
Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold
- Nelson Mandela
You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.
- George W. Bush
While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.
- John F. Kennedy
By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.
- Thomas Jefferson
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.
- Thomas Jefferson
Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
- Wendell Berry
... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.
- Hillary Clinton
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.