Justice is truth in action.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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.

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

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

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

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.

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.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.