Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought,
therefore, for her own sake.
[Lat., Justitia read more

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought,
therefore, for her own sake.
[Lat., Justitia nihil exprimit praemii, nihil pretii: per se
igitur expetitur.]

Justice is incidental to law and order.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

The more laws, the less justice.

The more laws, the less justice.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never on the track until it reach
Delinquency.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never on the track until it reach
Delinquency.

There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just;
And four times he who gets his fist in fust.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just;
And four times he who gets his fist in fust.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.