Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Fairness is what justice really is.

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

Censorship reflects a societys lack of confidence in itself.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

We've begun to get justice.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.

From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

Oh, justice is what you're threatened with.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

There is no justice among men.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.