Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Justice

The rain falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain’s affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors I would drown him.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
John Adams (1735–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer

If thou desire rest unto thy soul, be just.—He that doth no injury, fears not to suffer injury; the unjust mind is always in labor; it either practises the evil it hath projected, or projects to avoid the evil it hath deserved.
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English Religious Poet

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don’t believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
Learned Hand (1872–1961) American Judge, Judicial Philosopher

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian

What is in conformity with justice should also be in conformity to the laws.
Socrates (469BCE–399BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher

The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing…. By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American Head of State

Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.
Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian

Law never made men a whit more just.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else—these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s rain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and ied in cotton fields and sweatshops.
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American Paleontologist, Science Writer

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and igorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.
David Hume (1711–76) Scottish Philosopher, Historian

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
Junius Unidentified English Writer

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Samuel Butler

The foundation of justice is good faith.
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can reak
Anonymous

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
A. W. Tozer (1897–1963) American Christian Pastor, Preacher, Author, Editor

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
Learned Hand (1872–1961) American Judge, Judicial Philosopher

The shepherd is lame and the goats are nimble, but at the entrance of the fold they will have to meet him and at the door of the stable they will be counted.
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have (no laws) at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist

Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist

The triumph of justice is the only peace.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–99) American Lawyer, Orator, Agnostic

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian Dissident Novelist

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
Socrates (469BCE–399BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher

Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge.
Unknown

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, nd since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done ustice and given satisfaction to the community.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

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