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Much may be said on both sides.—ADDISON, The Spectator
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Any structure must be plumb if it is to endure or the building will fall. So it is with nations. Wrong may seem to triumph. Right may seem to be defeated. But the gravitation of eternal justice is upward toward the throne of God. Any political institution if it is to endure must be plumb with that line of justice.—JOHN PETER ALTGELD
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The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.—Bible, Proverbs 4:18
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The memory of the just is blessed.—Bible, Proverbs 10:7
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It would not be thought very just or wise to arraign the honorable professions of law and physic because the one produces the pettifogger and the other the quack.—HENRY CLAY
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Justice is something that man knows little about. He may know something about charity and understanding and mercy, and he should cling to these as far as he can.—CLARENCE DARROW
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The term "social justice" has been dangerously distorted by Father Coughlin. What possible social justice can there be in ideas of division, hatred, racial strife, bigotry and sympathy for totalitarian systems where freedom is lost and economic oppression rife? Social justice has no meaning apart from tolerance, racial friendliness, brotherhood, freedom and peace under democracy.—DALE DE WITT, Genuine Social Justice
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Justice is truth in action.—DISRAELI
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.—GALSWORTHY, Justice
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Justice was known by the ancients to be blind; by ourselves is admitted blind; will be acclaimed blind by the tongues of our descendents. It is blind because it is depart—or rather compartmental.—GALSWORTHY
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Hindus, Parsees, Christians, or Jews, if we wish to live as one nation, the interest of anyone of us must be the interest of all. The only deciding consideration can be the justice of a particular cause.—MAHATMA GANDHI
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I have always proclaimed that there can be nothing finer than to be the advocate of those who cannot defend themselves.—ADOLF HITLER, May I, 1937
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Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.—JEFFERSON, Notes on Virginia
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?—LINCOLN
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What we call Justice is but the organization of our egoism, which would be more noxious if it were not cabined and confined.—MAETERLINCK, Before the Great Silence
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I'm armed with more than complete steel,—
The justice of my quarrel.—CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Lust's Dominion
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Justice is the having and doing what is one's own.—PLATO
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Asking him if Aristides had ever done him any injury, "None at all," said he, "neither know I the man; but I am tired of hearing him everywhere called the Just."—PLUTARCH, Lives
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The love of justice is, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
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Every man loves justice at another man's house; nobody cares for it at his own.—Proverb
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Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
As e'er my conversation coped withal.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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Use every man after his deserts, and who should 'scape whipping?—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
Thrice is he armed that bath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
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Be just before you're generous.—SHERIDAN, The School for Scandal
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While the cardinal principles of justice are immutable, the methods by which justice is administered are subject to constant fluctuations.—Opinion: U. S. Supreme Court
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The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.—TATE & BRADY, Psalms
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.—DANIEL WEBSTER
