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My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don’t have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate, nothing more.
Hermann Göring1893–1946Speech in Frankfurt (3 March 1933), as quoted in Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny (1956) by Edward Crankshaw, p. 48
- Power
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Endorsement of a letter relating to the Whiskey Ring (29 July 1875)
- Responsibility
Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.
Che Guevara1928–1967Letter to his Children (1965)
I don’t think you and I are very closely related, however, if you are capable of trembling with indignation each time that an injustice is committed anywhere in the world, we are comrades, and that is more important.
Che Guevara1928–1967Letter to María Rosario Guevara, 20 February 1964. Quoted in Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution (1971) by K. S. Karol
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body.
Alexander Hamilton1757–1804Federalist No. 78 (May 28, 1788)In context
- Laws
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them.
Alexander Hamilton1757–1804Federalist No. 78 (May 28, 1788)In context
- Government
When a man’s partner is killed he’s supposed to do something about it. It doesn’t make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you’re supposed to do something about it.
Dashiell Hammett1894–1961The Maltese Falcon (1930), Chapter 20In context
- Friendship
- Responsibility
Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment, Chapter LIXIn context
- God
Once victim, always victim⁠—that’s the law!
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the Sixth: The Convert, Chapter XLVIIIn context
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter IIn context
- Life & Death
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
William Hazlitt1778–1830Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld’s Maxims (1823), No. 19
- Envy
When you go to prison they forget it’s your Constitution, too.
Jimmy Hoffa1913–1975Hoffa The Real Story (1975), Chapter 12, Convict, p. 187
- Laws
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026
- Life & Death
- Morality
Procedural fairness and regularity are of the indispensable essence of liberty.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel Mezei, 345 U.S. 206, 224–25 (1953)
- Liberty
If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner’s dock rather than the way to honors, we will have accomplished something toward making the peace more secure.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954Statement on the War Trials Agreement (12 August 1945)
- War & Peace