In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

More law, less justice.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

We live in a bewildering world.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.