"The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice."
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"I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope"
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"The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good."
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"Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger."
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"Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice."
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"My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me."
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"As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants."
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"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice."
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"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence."
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"I say that justice is truth in action."
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"Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman."
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"Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you."
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"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering."
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"For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things."
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"Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed."
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"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
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"We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white."
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"The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being."
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"Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for."
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"Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind."
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