Justice is truth in action.
Whoever fights, whoever falls,
Justice conquers evermore.
Emerson—Voluntaries.
Justice without wisdom is impossible.
Froude—Short Studies onGreat Subjects. Party Politics.
That which is unjust can really profit no one;
that which is just can really harm no one.
Henry George—The Land Question. Ch. XIV.
Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea
morior in exilio.
I have loved justice and hated iniquity; and
therefore I die in exile.
Pope Gregory VII. (Hildebrand.) Bowden's Life of Gregory VII. Vol.11. Bk. III.
Ch. XX.
The spirits of just men made perfect.
Hebrews. XII. 23.
Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.
Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
Horace—Carmina. III. 2. 31.
L'amour de la justice n'est, en la plupart des
hommes, que la crainte de souffrir l'injustice.
The love of justice is, in most men, nothing
more than the fear of suffering injustice.
La Rochefoucauld—Maximes.
Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice
Triumphs.
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Anna tenenti
Omnia dat qui justa negat.
He who refuses what is just, gives up everything to him who is armed.
Lucan—Pharsalia. I. 348. </poem>
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the Truth shall ever come uppermost,
And Justice shall be done.
Charles Mackay—Eternal Justice. St. 4.
I'm armed with more than complete steel,—
The justice of my quarrel.
Marlowe—Lust's Dominion. Act III. Sc. 4.
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Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most
Them fully satisfied, and thee appease.
Just are the ways of God,
And justifiable to men.
Prompt sense of equity! to thee belongs
The swift redress of unexamined wrongs!
Eager to serve, the cause perhaps untried,
But always apt to choose the suffering side!
Hannah More—Sensibility. L. 243.
A just man is not one who does no ill,
But he, who with the power, has not the will.
Philemon—Sententue. II.
The path of the just is as the shining light,
that shine th more and more unto the perfect day.
Proverbs. IV. 18.
Render therefore to all their dues.
Romans. XIII. 7.
Qui statuit aliquid, parte inaudita altera,
Aequum licet statuerit, haud asquus fuerit.
He who decides a case without hearing the
other side, though he decide justly, cannot be
considered just.
Seneca—Medea. CXCLX.
There is more owing her than is paid; and
more shall be paid her than she'll demand.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act I. Sc. 3. L.
107.
Use every man after his desert, and who should
'Scape whipping!
Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 554.
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.
Henry VI. Pt. II. Act ILL Sc. 2. L. 232.
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Your justicers; that these our nether crimes
So speedily can venge!
King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 78.
This even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poison 'd chalice
To our own lips.
Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 7. L. 9.
I show it most of all when I show justice;
For then I pity those I do not know,
Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall;
And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
Lives not to act another.
This bond is forfeit;
And lawfully by this the Jew may claim
A pound of flesh.
Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 230.
Thyself shalt see the act:
For, as thou urgest justice, be assur'd
Thou shalt have justice more than thou desir'st.
Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 315.
He shall have merely justice and his bond.
Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 339.
