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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Plato

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

George Washington

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight David Eisenhower

Without justice, courage is weak.

Benjamin Franklin

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

John Adams

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

Winston Churchill

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

Voltaire

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

St. Augustine of Hippo

We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.

Hierocles

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

Noam Chomsky

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Origen

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Stephen Jay Gould

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr

Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

Plato

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Socrates

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

George Bernard Shaw

If you want peace, work for justice.

Henry Louis Mencken

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 grounds that he was an orphan.

Abraham Lincoln

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

Kofi Annan

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Friedrich von Schiller

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave.

Muhammad

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