Edmund Burke Quotes

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers.

A good law is one that holds, whether you recognize it or not; a bad law is one that cannot, however much you ordain it.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

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.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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.

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

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

God is no respecter of persons or causes.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

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.

The essence of justice is mercy.

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.