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"Fiat justitia, ruat caelum."
"'Equality among human-being can be explained in Justice."
"Nothing is settled till it is settled right."
"There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice."
"Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert."
"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency."
"It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people."
"Observantior æqui Fit populus, nec ferre negat, cum viderit ipsum Auctorem parere sibi."
"Justice is truth in action."
"Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore."
"Justice without wisdom is impossible."
"That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one."
"Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio."
"The spirits of just men made perfect."
"Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede pœna claudo."
"L'amour de la justice n'est, en la plupart des hommes, que la crainte de souffrir l'injustice."
"Arma tenenti Omnia dat qui justa negat."
"But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the Truth shall ever come uppermost, And Justice shall be done."
"I'm armed with more than complete steel,— The justice of my quarrel."
"Prompt sense of equity! to thee belongs The swift redress of unexamined wrongs! Eager to serve, the cause perhaps untried, But always apt to choose the suffering side!"
"A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will."
"Render therefore to all their dues."
"Qui statuit aliquid, parte inaudita altera, Aequum licet statuerit, haud æquus fuerit."
"Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And four times he who gets his fist in fust."
"Truth is its [justice's] handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the gospel; it is the attribute of God."
"The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."
"There is a point at which even justice does injury."
"Suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo."
"On ne peut être juste si on n'est pas humain."
"Discite justitiam moniti et non temnere divos."
"Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum."
"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth."
"The world is a garden the fence of which is the dynasty. The dynasty is an authority through which life is given proper behavior. Proper behavior is a policy directed by the ruler. The ruler is an institution supported by the soldiers. The soldiers are helpers who are maintained by money. Money is sustenance brought together by the subjects. The subjects are servants who are protected by justice. Justice is something familiar (harmonious) and through it, the world persists. The world is a garden... and then it begins again … they are held together in a circle with no definite beginning or end."
"No one is fit to govern, save he who is mild without weakness and strong without harshness. They used to say : There can be no government without men, No men without money, No money without prosperity, And no prosperity without justice and good administration."
"The world is a garden for the state to master. The state is power supported by the law. The law is policy administered by the king. The king is a shepherd supported by the army. The army are assistants provided for by taxation. Taxation is sustenance gathered by subjects. Subjects are slaves provided for by justice. Justice is that by which the rectitude of the world subsists."
"Justice must not give way to policy."
"Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice."
"There is not in this country one rule by which the rich are governed, and another for the poor. No man has justice meted out to him by a different measure on account of his rank or fortune, from what would be done if he were destitute of both. Every invasion of property is judged of by the same rule; every injury is compensated in the same way; and every crime is restrained by the same punishment, be the condition of the offender what it may. It is in this alone that true equality can exist in society."
"The law is well known, and is the same for all ranks and degrees."
"It is the right of her Majesty's subjects to make claims and to have them tried in the constitutional way."
"The humanity of the Court has been loudly and repeatedly invoked. Humanity is the second virtue of Courts, but undoubtedly the first is Justice."
"When the Court see reason to suspect that justice has not been done to any particular defendant, they will in their discretion direct a further enquiry into the merits of the cause."
""No, no!" said the Queen. Sentence first—verdict afterwards."
""There's the King's Messenger. He's in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn't begin until next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all". "Suppose he never commits the crime?" said Alice. "That would be all the better, wouldn't it?" the Queen said."
"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."
"Oh Justice, when expelled from other habitations, make this thy dwelling place."
"Dear son, if you come to reign do that which befits a king, that is, be so just as to deviate in nothing from justice, whatever may befall you. If a poor man goes to law with one who is rich, support the poor rather than the rich man until you know the truth, and when the truth is known, do that which is just."
"We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of one's honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body."
"They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice."
"Salvation for a race, nation, or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted. Freedom and justice must be struggled for by the oppressed of all lands and races, and the struggle must be continuous, for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationships."