The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property will be safe.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.

My strength is made perfect in weakness.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.