Justice & Rights Sayings

If the lack of freedom is considered normal, there will be no complaints.

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the whole people.

When princes err, the people are punished.

We are free to favor our slaves and to punish them.

I have always sought to do justice, even to my enemies.

I have always sought to do justice to everyone.

If I wished to punish a province, I would leave it to be governed by philosophers.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

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

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

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.

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

They think that no man ought to be punished for his religion, nor for any other opinion whatsoever, provided that he does not stir up sedition.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.