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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

- Odell Shepard

The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.

- Terence

You have a pretty good case, Mr. Pitkin. How much justice can you afford?

- New Yorker cartoon

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

- H. L. Mencken

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

- George, Lord Halifax

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

- Thomas Fuller

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

- Henry Fielding

The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.

- Felix Frankfurter

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

- St. Augustine

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

- Barry Goldwater

Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge.

- Anonymous

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

- Roger Baldwin

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

- Winston Churchill

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

- Lactantius

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

- Alexander Pope

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

- Clarence Darrow

Justice is too good for some people, and not good enough for the rest.

- Norman Douglas

Injustice never rules forever.

- Seneca

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

- Horace

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

- Joseph Addison

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

- Proverbs

There is no such thing as justice—in or out of court.

- Clarence Darrow

Delay of justice is injustice.

- Walter Savage Landor

The spirits of just men made perfect.

- Hebrews

God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

- George Herbert

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.

- Thomas Jefferson

Render therefore to all their dues.

- Romans

He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.

- Seneca

This bond is forfeit; And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.

- William Shakespeare

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

- William Shakespeare

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

- William Watson