Louis IX Quotes

'Was I not born in the realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country? Is not my kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom have I enriched to another's harm? What turmoil have I made in this commonwealth that I should be suspected to have no regard to the same? How have I governed since my reign?

He made you king to do justice and righteousness.

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded by ill mend but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

In order to deal justly and equitably with your subjects, be straightforward and firm, turning neither to the right hand nor to the left, but always following what is just, and upholding the cause of the poor till the truth be made clear.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

The government has to be good, and just, and gentle.

Justice is an important obligation to Allah and to man. You have been charged with this responsibility. Discharge this responsibility so that you may win the approbation of Allah and the good will of the people. Treat the people equally in your presence, and in your decisions, so that the weak despair not of justice, and the high-placed harbor no hope of favoritism.

If a ruler can get rid of private crookedness and promote the public law, his people will become secure, and his state will become well ordered.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Be just before you are generous.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Many have ruled well who could not perhaps define a Commonwealth.

We need a President who is more interested in being right and just than being President.

King Henry VIII has more learning than any English monarch ever possessed before him. What may we not expect from a king who has been nourished by philosophy and the nine Muses?

I established law and justice in the land.

A good king is a public servant.

Do justice fairly, correctly and equitably to churches, widows, orphans, and all others, without fraud, corruption, obstruction or abusive delay.

I have told you already a hundred times: You are not a King and yet you have no idea how to be one …. All your difficulties and anxieties come from your own bad administration and because you have never paid any attention to my advice. I shall always regret having given you a kingdom where you have merely profited from the reputation of my name

I just try to do justice to the scripts that are written.

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.