Quotes On: Justice

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.