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    It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary
    ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not
    know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole
    people.

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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.]

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When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, read more

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

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He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced read more

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: Justice Quotes,
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and
any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, read more

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and
any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies
under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Justice Quotes,
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Justice is the truth in action.

Justice is the truth in action.

by Joseph Joubert Found in: Justice Quotes,
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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred read more

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

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But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and read more

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of
angels,
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are
written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the
spirits of just men made perfect,
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood
of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

by Bible Found in: Justice Quotes,
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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.

by Robert Browning Found in: Justice Quotes,
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Justice is incidental to law and order.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

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