Joe Lieberman Quotes

Law alone cannot make men see right.

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

The law is the public conscience.

It is not enough to show me that a measure is expedient: you must show me also that it is right.

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

We need a proper balance between rights and responsibilities in our laws.

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

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

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.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

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.

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.

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.

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

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.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Justice is truth in action.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Good morals lead to good laws.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

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

I think the first duty of society is justice.