"The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted."
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"Justice renders to every one his due."
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"The foundation of justice is good faith."
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"The aim of justice is to give everyone his due."
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"Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing."
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"The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box."
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"I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it."
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"Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it."
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"Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake."
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"Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial."
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"As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little."
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"I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."
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"The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct."
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"In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour."
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"It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence."
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"The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations."
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"The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be counteracted by the utmost efforts of human power or wisdom, resignation, and as far as the strength of our reason and religion can carry us, a cheerful acquiescence to the Divine Will, is what we are to aim."
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"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice."
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"Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?"
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"In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society."
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