No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

I am a just man.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.