Justice

If you can't afford to take care of your veterans, then don't go to war.

Health care is a human right, not a privilege.

Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

What is right in itself needs no command.

I, too, sing America.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Everyone needs to be represented on screen.

You don't play villains like they are villains. You play them like they believe in what they are doing.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.