Herbert Spencer Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Order, Justice

  Herbert Spencer (1902). “Facts and Comments”

• A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

  Herbert Spencer

  Ignorance, Men, Average

• What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.

  Herbert Spencer

  Powerful, Men, Rights

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.125, VM eBooks

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