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It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.

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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

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The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

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If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

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Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.

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They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor

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The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

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We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so....We stay on the outside of our impressions, as if staring at them through a frosted window, superficially related to them, yet estranged from whatever has eluded casual definition.

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In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

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As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

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Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

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Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.

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The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

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Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

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I think that we are in a position to continue to make progress, but it's gonna require us to both recognize what the problems are, also recognize the progress we've made. Last point I'd make on this, since we're on criminal justice: During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s.

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Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law.

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Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. 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.

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