Quotes on Justice Truth

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what counts more than talent, what counts more than energy or concentration or commitment, or anything else - is kindness. And the more in the world that you encounter kindness and cheerfulness - which is its kind of amiable uncle or aunt - the better the world always is. And all the big words: virtue, justice, truth - are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.