Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [321-340] of 715 Justice quotesJustice QuotesJustice Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.~ Chris Hedges All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.~ Heinrich Heine I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.~ Robert A. Heinlein Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?~ Lillian Hellman Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them so what good are they?~ Ammon Hennacy Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!~ Patrick Henry I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.~ Patrick Henry Politics must be the battle of the principles... the principle of liberty against the principle of force.~ Auberon Herbert The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.~ George D. Herron Without law and order our nation cannot survive.~ Adolf Hitler I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.~ Jimmy Hoffa The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.~ Abbie Hoffman The president of the American Bar Association begins a nationwide tour, giving speeches on the dangers of Treaty Law: 'The doctrine that the treaty power is unlimited and omnipotent and may be used to OVERRIDE the Constitution and the Bill of Rights...is a doctrine of recent origin and largely derived from Missouri v. Holland.'~ Frank E. Holman For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought -- not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase “due process of law” there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print