Quotes about Justice

Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man—this race and that race and the other race being inferior... Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged....

He is not my equal in many respects, but in his right to enjoy 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,' in his right to put into his mouth the bread that his hands have earned, he is my equal...

let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty.

I am not at all concerned about whose side God is on, for I know the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in...

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty... We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. --April 18, 1864 Address at Baltimore

To secure to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

No gratitude from the wicked.