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

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Names, Tyrants

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• But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Law, Judging

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.1, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Citizens, Force, Used

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.93, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The American Dream is freedom, prosperity, peace-and liberty and justice for all. That's a big dream. It's not always easy to achieve, but that's the ideal. More than any country in history we've made gains toward a democracy that is enviable throughout the world. Dreams require perseverance if they are to be realized, and fortunately we're a hard-working country and people. We are the luckiest people in history, just by the fact that we are Americans.

  Donald Trump

  Dream, Country, Perseverance

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• It is hard to stay patient about policy matters where everybody agrees about what needs to be done and then it just doesn't happen, like reforming the immigration system and getting rid of family immigration jails and closing Guantanamo and criminal-justice reform. All these issues, there is basically consensus. There's no rational objections whatsoever, but it can't happen because of other stupid steps we have to take in politics.

  Rachel Maddow

  Stupid, Jail, Issues

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Motivational, Veterans Day

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• Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to impose their policy preferences on society. In fact, no radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And with each Supreme Court term, we hold our collective breath hoping the justices will do no further damage, knowing full well they will disappoint. Such is the nature of judicial tyranny.

  Mark Levin

  Law, Knowing, Government

  Mark R. Levin (2006). “Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

  James A. Baldwin

  Loss, Diversity, Identity

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• Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Uprising, Doe, Literature

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• Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Art, Lynching, Censorship

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2014). “The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism”, p.30, Oxford University Press

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• There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Fairness, Solidarity

  Pope John Paul II's Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 8, 1999.

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• There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

  George Farquhar

  Rags, Scandal, Poverty

  'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 1, sc. 1

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• It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

  Aristotle

  Exercise, Ethics, Virtue

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• Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

  Aristotle

  People, Quality, Needs

  Aristotle (2003). “The Aristotle's Ethics: Nicomachean Ethics”, Spark Notes

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• It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

  Aristotle

  Men, Differences, Law

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• Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

  Saint Augustine

  Angel, Men, Order

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.478, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

  Saint Augustine

  Wise, Love Is, Sake

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• I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Believe, Thinking, Law

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• Once (says an Author; where I need not say)
  Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way;
  Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew stong;
  While Scale in Hand Dame Justice pass'd along
  Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws.
  Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause,
  Dame Justice wighing long the doubtful Right
  Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight.
  The cause of strife remov'd so rarely well,
  "There take" (says Justice), "take ye each a shell.
  We thrive at Westminster on Fools like you:
  'Twas a fat oyster - live in peace - Adieu."

  Pope Alexander VI

  Winning, Sight, Hands

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• Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Mistake, Law, Tools

  L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “Ordermaster”, p.265, Macmillan

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• To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men, and therefore the common good of humanity. Peace cannot be limited to a mere absence of war, the result of an ever precarious balance of forces. No, peace is something that is built up day after day, in the pursuit of an order intended by God, which implies a more perfect form of justice among men.

  Pope Paul VI

  Spiritual, Peace, War

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1980*). “On the development of peoples”

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• The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

  Leonard Read

  Government, Liberty, Gold

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• Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

  Aristotle

  Law, Principles, Owing

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2035, Princeton University Press

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