"Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls."
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"The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit."
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"Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world."
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"Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting."
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"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary."
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"Without justice, courage is weak."
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"We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us."
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"On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar."
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"Every court of criminal justice must have the power of correcting the greatest and dangerous of all abuses of the forms of law - that of the protracted imprisonment of the accused, untried, perhaps not intended ever to be tried, it may be, not informed of the nature of the charge against him, or the name of the accuser."
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"There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death."
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"Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice."
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"We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice."
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"Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it."
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"Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects."
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"Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it."
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"We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society."
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"Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established."
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"The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states."
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"I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice."
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"A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors."
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