"Nothing can be truly great which is not…" — Samuel Johnson
"Nothing can be truly great which is not right."
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
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More Fairness Quotes
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one of 336 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
— Aristotle
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
— Francis Bacon
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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so…
— Kate Adie
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'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We…
— Joe Biden
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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
— William Blackstone
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due…
— William J. Brennan
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
— Edmund Burke
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I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate…
— Herman Cain
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Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our…
— David Cameron
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Integrity has no need of rules.
— Albert Camus
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
— Johnny Carson
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