Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Duties and rights are reciprocal

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.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

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

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties.

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.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

Be just before you are generous.

Justice is truth in action.

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Justice is the truth in action.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

There is no entitlement without a duty.

Obedience to the law is itself a moral duty.

Strong rights presume strong responsibilities.