#Justice Quotes

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.”

“Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.”

“Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.”

“Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.”

“And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.”

“For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.”

“Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.”

“When law can do no right,Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.”

“Tremble, thou wretch,That hast within thee undivulged crimesUnwhipped of justice.”

“Be just, and fear not.”

“Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.”

“Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!”

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”

“Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:His faults lie open to the laws; let them,Not you, correct him.”

“Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.”

“Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.”

“I beseech you,Wrest once the law to your authority:To do a great right, do a little wrong.”

“Foul deeds will rise,Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.”

“Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.”

“To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust;But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.”

“Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.”

“I am a subject,And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me,And therefore personally I lay my claimTo my inheritance of free descent.”

“Be just, and fear not.Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,Thy God's and truth's.”

“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.”

“To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.”

“Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.”

“We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.”

“And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.”

“Let us kill all lawyers”

“I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?”

“Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.”

“Justice always whirls in equal measure.”

“Report me and my cause aright.”

“There is a tendency for things to right themselves.”

“Time's glory is to command contending kings,To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”

“What's more to do,Which would be planted newly with the time,As calling home our exiled friends abroadThat fled the snares of watchful tyranny,Producing forth the cruel ministersOf this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent handsTook off her life; this, and what needful elseThat calls upon us, by the grace of GraceWe will perform in measure, time, and place.”

“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.”

“One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.”

“Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

“The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.”

“All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.”

“Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore”

“The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all.”

“Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.”

“So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.”

“There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.”

“Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.”

“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

“The arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just.”