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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
(Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Sir Charles Grandison, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 2, letter 3, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).)
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If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
(Francis Bacon (1561-1626), British philosopher, essayist, statesman. speech for prosecution, as Attorney General, in Overbury murder case (Nov. 1615).)
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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
(Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Sir Charles Grandison, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 2, letter 3, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).)
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This even-handed justice
Commends th' ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Macbeth, in Macbeth, act 1, sc. 7, l. 10-12.
"Even-handed" means impartial.)
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And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Fate," The Conduct of Life (1860).
This is Emerson in a utilitarian mood. He will later catch himself and warn us of overhasty generalizations.)
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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
(Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. Jocasta, in La Thιbaοde (The Thebans), act 4, sc. 3 (1664).)
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The price of justice is eternal publicity.
(Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), British novelist. Things That Have Interested Me, "Secret Trials," Second Series (1923).)
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We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).)
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