
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
- Topic: Justice, Mistakes
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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.
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.
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.
Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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.
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.
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.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
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.
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fastest fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.
