Without justice, courage is weak.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

It does not take a majority of prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

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.

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

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.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

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.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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