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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

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Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.

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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

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He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.

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Justice has long arm.

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The severest justice may not always be the best policy

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To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

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What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

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To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

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The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

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Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

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Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law.

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They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor

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Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

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God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice... Our finest moments have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

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Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

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The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use.

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