Quotes about Justice

Sam Spade: You killed Miles and you're going over for it.

- Humphrey Bogart (as Samuel Spade) in The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Clouseau: There is no doubt in my mind, whatsoever, Hercule. Maria Gambrelli is most definitely protecting someone. Find that somebody, and you have found the murderer. And I shall find the murderer before the day is out.

- Peter Sellers (as Jacques Clouseau) in A Shot in the Dark (1964)

Dr. Peter Blood: Up that rigging, you monkeys! Aloft! There's no chains to hold you now. Break out those sails and watch them fill with the wind that's carrying us all to freedom!

- Errol Flynn (as Peter Blood) in Captain Blood (1935)

[Peter Blood watches as the slave ship he and the others are on approaches Port Royal]
Dr. Peter Blood: It's a truly royal clemency we're granted, my friends... one well worthy of King James. He spares us the mercifully quick extinction of the hangman's rope... and gives us the slow death of slavery. He grants us our lives in exchange for living death. Faith, it's an uncertain world entirely.

- Errol Flynn (as Peter Blood) in Captain Blood (1935)

Senator Joseph Paine: Let me go! I'm not fit to be a senator! I'm not fit to live! Expel me, not him! Willet Dam is a fraud! It's a crime against the people who sent me here - and I committed it! Every word that boy said is the truth! Every word about Taylor and me and graft and the rotten political corruption of my state! Every word of it is true! I'm not fit for office! I'm not fit for any place of honor or trust! Expel me, not that boy!

- Claude Rains (as Senator) in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Mrs. Green: You think there's enough anti-Semitism in life already without people reading about it?
Phil Green: No, but this story is doomed before I start. What can I say about anti-Semitism that hasn't been said before?
Mrs. Green: Maybe it hasn't been said well enough. If it had, you wouldn't have had to explain it to Tommy right now.

- Anne Revere (as Mrs. Green) in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

T.E. Lawrence: The Law says the man must die... If he dies, would that content the Howitat?
Auda abu Tayi: Yes.
T.E. Lawrence: Sherif Ali. If none of lord Auda's men harms any of yours, will that content the Harith?
Sherif Ali: Yes.
T.E. Lawrence: Then I will execute the Law. I have no tribe and no one is offended.

- Peter O'Toole (as T.E. Lawrence) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Auda abu Tayi: What troubles the Englishman?
Sherif Ali: The one he killed is the one he brought out of the Nafud.
Auda abu Tayi: It was written then. Better to have left him there.

- Anthony Quinn (as Auda Abu Tayi) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Vicar: This is the People's War. It is our war. We are the fighters. Fight it then. Fight it with all that is in us and may God defend the Right.

- Henry Wilcoxon (as Vicar) in Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Eliza Doolittle: The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated.

- Audrey Hepburn (as Eliza Doolittle) in My Fair Lady (1964)