#1
"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."
#2
"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."
#3
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
#4
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."
#5
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
#6
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
#7
"It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment."
#8
"Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience."
#9
"The true definition of justice is a realization that must rise within each person."
#10
"The only way to deal with the tyrannies of the world is to be completely indifferent to them."
#11
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."
#12
"E pur si muove. (And yet it moves.)"
#13
"The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right."
#14
"It is better to incur a harm than to do a harm."
#15
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
#16
"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
#17
"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."
#18
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
#19
"An unjust peace is better than a just war."
#20
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
#21
"Politics have no relation to morals."
#22
"The end justifies the means."
#23
"Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated."
#24
"We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice."