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It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do.
Whether we bringourenemiestojustice, orbring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
Justice is being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing it.
To fight for the right, to abhor the imperfect, the unjust, or the mean, to swerve neither to the right hand nor the left, to care nothing for flattery or applause or odium or abuseöit is so easy to have any of them in Indiaönever to let your enthusiasm be soured or your courage grow dim but to remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of his ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time and to feel that somewhere among those millions you have left, a little justice, or happiness or prosperity, a sense of manliness or moral dignity, a springof patriotism, a dawn of intellectual enlightenmentora stirringofduty whereit did not exist beforeöthat is enough, that is the Englishman's justification in India.
This ain't the shop for justice.
Justice is truth in action.
I have but one request to make at my departure from this world, it isöthe charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives, dare now vindicate them, let no prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justicetomycharacter.Whenmycountry takesher place among thenations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world may perish. SeeWatson 891:1.
To disarm the strong and arm the weak would be to change the social order which it's my job to preserve. Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.
'Justice'was done, and the President ofthe Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport withTess.
Non enim rei effectus, sed efficientis affectus in crimine est. Nec qu× fiunt, sed quo animo fiunt, ×quitus pensat. Crime liesnot inthe deed, but inthe doer'sintention: it is not what was done, but the spirit in which it was done that justice should consider.
Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.
Equal and exact justice to all menfreedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of the person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selectedöthese principles form the bright constellation that has gone before us.
Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
We must not regard political consequences, however formidable they may be. If rebellion was the certain consequence, we are bound to say,'Justitia fiat, ruat coelum' (Let Justice be done, though the skies may fall).' See Ferdinand I 320:1.
Ki qu'en plurt ne ki qu'en chant, le dreit estuet aler avant. Whether it makes one cry or sing, justice must be carried out.
Die he or justice must.
Two evilsögreed and factionöare the destruction of all justice.
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