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Justice

«For a justice of this ultimate tribunal, the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is usually great.»
Author: Abe Fortas | About: Justice | Keywords: revelation, self-discovery, tribunal
«From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.»
«Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave»
«From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.»
«Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].»
«[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.»
«He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan»
«I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.»
«Fidelity is the sister of justice.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Fidelity, Justice, Loyalty | Keywords: fidelity
«[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists through blind imitation of the past.»

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