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Justice Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
- Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
- To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions…
- To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil…
- Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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