"Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing."
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"But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it."
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"I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that."
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"Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency."
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"Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice."
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"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!"
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"The history of the world is the world's court of justice."
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"...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger."
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"To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial."
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"I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh."
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"One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides."
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"Every offense is avenged on earth."
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."
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"Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities."
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"Justice is the truth in action."
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"You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required--and content that He should indeed require no more of you--than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him."
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"Justice in the extreme is often unjust."
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"Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side."
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"I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the Earth to bring him to justice."
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"A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world."
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