Walter Cronkite Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Friday, Justice

  CBS Evening News Farewell, 1981.

• Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there

  Walter Cronkite

  Home, Long, Justice

• The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.

  Walter Cronkite

  Law, Justice, Priorities

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

• Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the] torture and the burning of heretics — Muslims in particular. Now, of course, I am not accusing the Attorney General of pulling out anyone's fingernails or burning people at the stake (at least I don't know of any such cases). But one does get the sense these days that the old Spaniard's spirit is comfortably at home in Ashcroft's Department of Justice.

  Walter Cronkite

  Home, Law, People

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