Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens

The more laws, the less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
H. L. Mencken

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

More law, less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Law and justice are not always the same.
Gloria Steinem

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon

The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon

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

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
Leonard Cohen

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Adam Smith

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
Ralph Nader