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Justice Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation…
- Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you…
- Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and…
- I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's…
- Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
- Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught…
- Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
- The severest justice may not always be the best policy
- Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice.
- Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
- I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with…
- May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
- 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.…
- The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
- I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and…
- 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…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. — Saint Augustine
- Punishment is justice for the unjust. — Saint Augustine
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