Justice Quotes

"For it is my opinion that we generally get only as much as we have coming to us." "It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law" "Every wise, just, and fortunate man that once existed, first possessed the principle of truth within his breast." "No one ever lies when they are in the right." "Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice" "I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights." "Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears" "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." "Justice must always question itself just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions" "In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so" "Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil." "In case of dissension never dare to judge till you've heard the other side" "Any unilateral and extra-judicial act by law enforcement bodies contravenes the elementary norms of the law." "If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today " "Suffrage is the pivotal right" "We ask only for justice and equal rights—the right to vote the right to labor the right to serve as jurors and then the judgment of our peers" "It is essential to the happiness of a nation that it should have an efficient and dignified system of justice." "There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people" "The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced" "Truth's gonna always come out."