Upholding Rights Quotes

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice.

There is no strength without justice.

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.

Let the law bend the mountain.

Neither bribe nor loose thy right.

Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.

The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.

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

The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number but they have the right to live in peace, to choose their own way of life and to determine their own allegiance. They way of life is British; their allegiance is to the Crown. It is the wish of the British people and the duty of Her Majesty's Government to do everything that we can to uphold that right. That will be our hope and our endeavour, and, I believe, the resolve, of every Member of this House.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

Without justice, courage is weak.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

I am a sort of justice fanatic, and I always have to give a voice to those who get a raw deal.

I was brought up with a very strong value that you should always protect the small and the few against those who want to misuse their muscle and weight in order to get what they weren't supposed to.

To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.