Ameen Rihani Quotes

Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).

I wonder if it's conservative or liberal [ inalienable rights idea], because when we think of liberal thought, when we think about the relation to liberty, we're talking about traditional conservatism - as opposed to today's conservatism, which no longer represents those views.

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the leastact of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.

Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.

You might say that, if citizens are acting for the right reasons in a constitutional regime, then regardless of their comprehensive doctrines they want every other citizen to have justice. So you might say they're all working together to do one thing, namely to make sure every citizen has justice. Now that's not the only interest they all have, but it's the single thing they're all trying to do. In my language, they've striving toward one single end, the end of justice for all citizens.

Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.