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

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund Burke

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
Christopher Marlowe

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
John Stuart Mill

The more laws, the less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
Clarence Darrow

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Heraclitus

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
John Donne

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is a time when even justice brings harm.
Sophocles

There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Sophocles

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."
Sophocles