"What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it."
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"Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time."
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"If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services."
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"I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the leastact of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world."
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"The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable."
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"While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned."
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"If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself."
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"If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me."
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"The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense."
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"That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right."
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"The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine."
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"The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans."
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"It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic."
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"I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person."
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"I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it. But that's how we are. That's what happens when you put people together and put them into societies and cultures and have laws and the idea of justice."
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"One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity."
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"If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love."
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"Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just."
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"When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges."
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"If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice."
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