David Crockett Quotes

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Let not the hatred of others make you avoid justice.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Each is indispensable to civilization. Without law, we should be at the mercy of the least scrupulous; without ethics, law could not exist.

May the foundation of our new constitution be justice, Truth and Righteousness.

Justice and good will outlast passion.

What does it matter if an individual is shattered - if only justice is resurrected?

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love

Justice and fairness and history are not necessarily decisive in what happens.

It is justice not charity that is wanting in the world.

The Hebrew word “tzedakah” … is translated as “charity” but … comes from the same root as the word for “justice”.

Do not allow your hatred of a people to incite you not to act equitably.