John F. Kennedy Quotes

The law exists to express our values.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

The law is the public conscience.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Each is indispensable to civilization. Without law, we should be at the mercy of the least scrupulous; without ethics, law could not exist.

Justice is that virtue that gives every man his due.

What is right is not derived from the rule, but the rule arises from our knowledge of what is right

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

There is such a thing as justice which is not necessarily the same thing as law.

I don't think justice should be an option. We should always have justice.

If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society.

I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.

We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.

It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society.

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

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Fairness is what justice really is.

Justice is truth in action.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

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.

In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.