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~ The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judgesí views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. ~

Justice Hugo L. Black

~ Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to addÖ artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society -- the farmers, mechanics, and laborers -- who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government ~

Andrew Jackson

~ When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. ~

Chuck Jones

~ [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. ~

Daniel Webster

~ Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. ~

Seneca

~ Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts ~

Voltaire

~ We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. ~

Aldo Leopold

~ The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation. ~

Tran Duc Luong

~ That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest. ~

Charles Tupper

~ “Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Please!” ~

Jonathan Larson

~ At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. ~

Aristotle

~ For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. ~

Aeschylus

~ I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. ~

Barry Goldwater

~ Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. ~

Channing E. Phillips

~ Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. ~

Blaise Pascal

~ No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong. ~

Walter Williams

~ Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ~

Anton Chekhov

~ A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion. ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ~

Barry Goldwater

~ Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ~

Barry Morris Goldwater

~ Extreme law is often extreme injustice. ~

Terence

~ Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. ~

Abby Ottenhoff

~ No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. ~

Edmund Burke

~ For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. ~

Aeschylus

~ It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. ~

Jonathan Swift

~ Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. ~

Lord Acton

~ There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. ~

Charles de Montesquieu

~ Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable. ~

L. Estrange

~ Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ~

Wendell Berry

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