Patriotism inVietnamtook the communist road because it was the only one available. It had the appeal of a dream, a dream of social justice.

-Nguyen, Xuan Oanh
  In the Eastern Express,17 May.

I am sure that the immediate abolition of the slave trade is the first, the principal, the most indispensable act of policy, of dutyand of justice the legislature of this country has to take, if it is indeed their wish to secure those important objects† For we continue to this hour a barbarous traffic in slaves, we continue it even yet, in spite of all our great and undeniable pretensions as civilisation.

-Pitt,William known as  theYounger
  Speech to the House of Commons, 2 Apr.The House did not abolish slavery until1806.

Justice is superior to injustice. 655

-Plato
Republic, bk.1, 367b (translated by P Shorey,1953).

Justice is doing one's work and not meddling with what isn't one's own.

-Plato
Republic, bk.4,433a (translated by G M A Grube, revised by C D C Reeve).

I can answer for but three things: a firm belief in the justice of ourcause, close attention in the prosecution of it, and the strictest integrity.

-Washington, BookerTaliaferro
  On being elected Commander of the Unionist Army,19 Jun.

   Fiat justitia et ruant coeli. Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall. See Ferdinand I 320:1.

-Watson,William
  A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions Concerning Religion and State. This was an influential reworking of Ferdinand I's motto.

: A rape! a rape! : How! :Yes, you have ravished justice, Forced her to do your pleasure.

-Webster,John
  VITTORIAMONTICELSOVITTORIA1612  TheWhite Devil, act 3, sc.2.

   The feelings withwhichwe facethisnewage of right and opportunity sweep across our heartstrings like some air out of God's own presence, where justice and mercyare reconciled, and the judge and the brother are one.

-Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow
  Inaugural address, 4 Mar.