Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

The Dutch public has always been accustomed to being treated according to the letter of the law.

Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.

Access to justice is a fundamental part of a properly functioning democracy.

At the end of the day, the law is the same for the Prime Minister or a common man of India.

No individual, no organization, no government is above the law.

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised.

Law never made men a whit more just.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.