Equality Before the Law Quotes

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Liberals despise the rule of law because it interferes with their ability to rule by mob. They love to portray themselves as the weak taking on the powerful. But it is the least powerful who suffer the most once the rule of law is gone.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

The subject of human rights in China is one which I have discussed on numerous occasions in the United States. In fact, I've talked so much about it, that I practically have blisters on my mouth. Human rights in China have been improving from one day to the next, and I think it's fair to say that the degree of human rights now being enjoyed by the Chinese people is unprecedented in China's history. We acknowledge that we still have shortcomings, and these shortcomings are ones which we are still working hard to address

A government of laws, not of men.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress?

We are no longer facing a contest betweenDemocracy and Communism. The conflict today is between Democracy and authoritarianism.

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Resistance to absolutism is characteristic of democratic progress.

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

Public liberty, with internal peace and order, has flourished almost without interruption.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

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

The problem is we don't fight on the same level. We have laws that protect everybody.

The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.

Our criminal justice system was designed to be fair and is the fairest system known to man.

The day must come when the rule of law replaces emergency decrees an when the independent judiciary replace arbitrary justice.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.