Charles Colson Quotes

I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the leastact of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

All Americans want our government to have a moral compass.

Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

And every human being is precious.

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's decisions.

Democracy is better than tyranny.

The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

There isno triumph or glory in the world that's worth an inch of human skin.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

Fairness and justice will be the base of my government.

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.