Quotes about National Justice

James Gibbons

The nation is too brave, too strong, too powerful, and too just to engage in an unrighteous and precipitate war.

At a requiem for those who died on the battleship Maine, Gibbons criticized war mongering yellow journals. This was a very courageous statement to have made. The Hearst newspaper had fired up the American appetite for revenge and almost all the politicians were advocating war. At the time anti-Catholicism in America was extensive and Catholics were always being accused of not being patriotic Americans and more loyal to the Vatican than to the United States.

Yitzhak Shamir

The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

Elihu Root

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.

George Washington

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

Adam Hochschild

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.

John Quincy Adams

The constitution of the judiciary, experimental and imperfect as it was even in the infancy of our existing Government, is yet more inadequate to the administration of national justice at our present maturity.

The country was growing and the number of Federal Judges were totally inadequate. The main reason is that the Senators were appointed by state legislatures and states did not want any Federal Judges perhaps weakening the power of the state governments and the judiciary.

Ted Kennedy

Supreme Court nominations are an occasion to pause and reflect on the values that make our nation strong, just and fair. And we must determine whether a nominee has a demonstrated commitment to those basic values.

George Washington

It is a valuable ingredient in the general estimate of our welfare that the part of our country which was lately the scene of disorder and insurrection now enjoys the blessings of quiet and order. The misled have abandoned their errors, and pay the respect to our Constitution and laws which is due from good citizens to the public authorities of the society. These circumstances have induced me to pardon generally the offenders here referred to, and to extend forgiveness to those who had been adjudged to capital punishment. For though I shall always think it a sacred duty to exercise with firmness and energy the constitutional powers with which I am vested, yet it appears to me no less consistent with the public good than it is with my personal feelings to mingle in the operations of Government every degree of moderation and tenderness which the national justice, dignity, and safety may permit.

The early years of the United States were not without their rebellions.

Nathanael Greene

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.

National Justice Quotes