Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

All who have died are equal.

I Burchard, bishop of the church of Worms, on account of the strenuous lamentations of the wretched, and the frequent schemes of those many people who tear like dogs at the familia of St. Peter, imposing various laws on them and oppressing the weaker among them by their judgments; with the advice of the clergy and knights and the whole familia I have ordered that these laws be written down, so that no advocate or agent or official or any other person among them may impose on the familia anything new; rather, let it be known before everyone that there is one and the same law, common to rich and poor alike.

The fundamental purpose of all law is to do justice between strong and weak, between large and small.

I don't think anyone is untouchable.

Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

The law exists to protect the weak from the strong.

Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

Equality is a mortuary word.

In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

The triumph of justice is the only peace.

What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we think ourselves such that death seems unforgivable. We are temporary organs of the race, cells in the body of life; we die and drop away that life may remain young and strong. If we were to live forever, growth would be stifled, and youth would find no room on earth. Death, like style, is the removal of rubbish, the circumcision of the superfluous. In the midst of death life renews itself immortally.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

There is no strength without justice.

I'm not greedy. I just want my half.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

And death makes equal the high and low.