“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”
Ayn Rand (unverified)
“The end does not justify the means. No one’s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Pardoning the bad, is injuring the good.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)“The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence—these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.”
— Albert Einstein (verified)“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice, because so long as a case has to be scrutinised by twelve honest men, defendant and plaintiff alike have a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)“Without justice courage is weak.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)