John Adams Quotes about Justice

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Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

John Adams

Fall, Bad Ass, Justice

John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor (1983). “Papers of John Adams”

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams

Ideas, Law, Justice

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.9

Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he advanced was, "that a mere creature or finite being could not make satisfaction to infinite justice for any crimes," and that "these things are very mysterious." Thus mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity.

John Adams

Wisdom, Jesus, Justice

John Adams (1961). “Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Diary, 1755-1770”, Belknap Pr