Justice & Rights Sayings

Our judgements concerning moral distinctions are derived from the moral sentiment, and not from reason.

The development of the world is the development of the idea of freedom.

For it is not the bare words, but the scope of the speaker, that giveth the true interpretation of a law.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

The greatest scandal of the world is the one we are all guilty of: the fact that we are born.

What is prison? It is a machine for grinding out delinquents.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and terrorists, the more you control all the people.

The only way to escape the personal consequences of freedom is to give up the very freedom itself.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Man is mortal, that may be; but let us die resisting, and if we die, let us die with the certainty that we have not betrayed justice.

The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.

The happy life is to be found in the mind's freedom from disturbance.

It is better to starve to death in freedom from grief and fear, than to live in plenty with perturbation.

I glow with indignation when I contemplate the slavery of half the human race.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

The Americans are a people who are always talking about liberty, but they are also a people who are always ready to give it up.