Daniel Webster Quotes

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

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.

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

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

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

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.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

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

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

Justice is incidental to law and order

There is no justice in the world unless we make it..

We will be judged as a society and as a culture by how we treated our meanest and most vulnerable citizens. If we keep going the way we're going, we will be judged very, very harshly - and sooner, perhaps, than we think.

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.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

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.

India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or they cannot rightfully unite in maintaining the government itself.