Francis Schaeffer Quotes

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

If the king did not, without tiring, inflict punishment on those worthy to be punished, the stronger would roast the weaker, like fish on a spit

Tell the King, that whole cities are in open revolt against the prosecutions, and that it is impossible to enforce the decrees here. As for myself, I shall continue to hold by the Catholic faith; but I will never give any color to the tyrannical claim of kings to dictate to the consciences of their people, and to prescribe the form of religion that they choose to impose. Call the King’s attention to the corruption that has crept into the administration of justice. Let the Government be reformed, the Privy Council and the Council of Finance, and increase the authority of the Council of State.

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

Criminality is a basic part of human nature.

We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil.

Telling the truth about domestic violence - and those who shield it - should not be punished.

At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

When you're talking about villainy, then you're automatically circling around to talk about justice.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.

When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance.

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.

That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who endure for ever to attain everything in a short time: and also, there is need of human virtue. If punishment followed instantly upon sin, men would act justly from fear and have no virtue.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.