The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property will be safe.