Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
~ Joseph Addison
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
~ Aeschylus
Liberty, equality – bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
~ Aristotle
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
~ Aristotle
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
~ Augustine
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
~ Augustine
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
~ Francis Bacon
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
~ Francis Bacon
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
~ James A. Baldwin
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
~ Edmund Burke
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
~ Edmund Burke
Justice while she winks at crimes, stumbles on innocence sometimes.
~ Samuel Butler
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The more laws the less justice.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, in De Officiis
Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.
~ Bill Cosby
Justice is truth in action.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
~ Louis Farrakhan
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
~ Ferdinand I
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
~ Sigmund Freud
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that gives is a punishment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Justice delayed is justice denied.
~ William E. Gladstone
I think the first duty of society is justice.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
~ Heraclitus
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.
~ President Andrew Jackson
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
~ Jesse Jackson
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
~ Martin Luther
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
~ Martin Luther
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice no matter who it’s for or against.
~ Malcolm X
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
~ H. L. Mencken
Justice without force is powerful; force without justice is tyrannical.
~ Blaise Pascal
Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.
~ Plato
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
~ Plato
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
~ Pope John Paul II
If you want peace, work for justice.
~ Pope Paul IV
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment; ‘Thou shalt not ration justice.’
~ Sophocles
There is a time when even justice brings harm.
~ Sophocles
Law and justice are not always the same.
~ Gloria Steinem
Fairness is what justice really is.
~ Potter Stewart
Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes…You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few parking tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a cop car in your rear-view mirror.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is hard and discordant.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
~ Orson Welles
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
~ Walt Whitman
Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.
~ N.T. Wright, in Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
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This evening Robert Novak spoke during our dinner at the Defending the American Dream Summit. Yes, I know what some of you are thinking who routinely read my blog. It has not been long since I said of Novak that as he has aged (he is 76) he has gradually stopped doing research and reporting and instead has become a gossip columnist. (And, yes I made a similar claim about the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund who will be speaking to us tomorrow.) But, let me tell you, Novak’s speech this evening and the Q&A session afterwards were both insightful and interesting.
