"When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner"
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"Justice always whirls in equal measure."
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"The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right."
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"Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice."
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"Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust."
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"What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?"
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"THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US."
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"The great soul of this world is just."
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"The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us."
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"We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity."
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"The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship."
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"If they are just, they are better than clever."
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"There are times when even justice brings harm with it."
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"I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break' me. These men are in fact powerless cowards hiding behind an honorable badge and I will not stop until justice has been served."
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"I got a garage door opener. It can't close. Just open."
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"I was born by Caesarian section . . . but not so you'd notice. It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through the window."
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"The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you."
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"There is no real force without justice."
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"Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings."
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"God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children."
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