Book of Kings Quotes

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland to govern the people of this kingdom well and justly than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world

Justice is an important obligation to Allah and to man. You have been charged with this responsibility. Discharge this responsibility so that you may win the approbation of Allah and the good will of the people. Treat the people equally in your presence, and in your decisions, so that the weak despair not of justice, and the high-placed harbor no hope of favoritism.

I established law and justice in the land.

If a law doesn’t produce a just result, then what good is it? …. If you don’t have a just result, then the law doesn’t matter.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Might and right govern everything in this world; might till right is ready.

The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct faults. He who obeys them because they are just obeys a justice which is imaginary and not the essence of law; it is quite self-contained, it is law and nothing more.

We’re not here to secure convictions; we are here to secure justice.

The Hebrew word “tzedakah” … is translated as “charity” but … comes from the same root as the word for “justice”.

Justice must be seen to be done.

No man ought to be condemned for exhorting people to pursue justice in a certain line, though he may foresee that in the pursuit of that justice the opposition given to those who are proceeding in a just course may produce collision, and that collision lead to the commission of crime; but our duty, as I conceive, is to seek for the injustice, and there to impute the crime… It is to that injustice, and not to those who pursue a just course for the attainment of a right end, that the guilt is to be ascribed.

In our society, authority derives from justice, and in our society, learning to live with authority should derive from and aid learning to understand and to feel justice.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

Be just before you are generous.