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 2. A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.

 3. A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.

 4. Above all other things is justice. Success is a good thing; wealth is good also; honour is better, but justice excels them all.

 5. All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

 6. All Nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.

 7. But knowledge itself is not Power. Wisdom is Power; and her Prime Minister is Justice, which is the perfected law of Truth.

 8. Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

 9. Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

10. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

11. Fidelity is the sister of justice.

12. Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

13. He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

14. He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

15. How invincible is justice if it be well spoken.

16. I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

17. I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

18. I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.

19. If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

20. If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."

21. Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

22. It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

23. It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

24. It is untrue that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

25. Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

26. Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men.

27. Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

28. Justice delayed, is justice denied.

29. Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

30. Justice is as strictly due between neighbour nations, as between neighbour citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang of robbers.

31. Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

32. Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.

33. Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

34. Justice is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

35. Justice is truth in actions.

36. Justice renders to every one his due.

37. Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

38. Justice without strength, or strength without justice; fearful misfortunes!

39. Justice without wisdom is impossible.

40. Justice, being destroyed, will destroy; being preserved, will preserve; it must never therefore be violated.

41. Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.

42. Keep justice, keep generosity, yielding to neither singly.

43. Knowledge is convertible into power, and axioms into rules of utility and duty.

44. Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice Triumphs.

45. One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

46. Only the actions of the justusmell sweet and blossom in the dust.

47. Prompt sense of equality! to thee belongs The swift redress of unexamined wrongs! Eager to serve, the cause perhaps untried, But always apt to choose the suffering side.

48. So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

49. Stand with anybody that stands right while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

50. That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which it just can really harm no one.

51. The law of cause and effect is inexorable and unrelenting. You reap a harvest of suffering, poverty, pain and sorrow, because you have sown the seed of evil in the past. You reap a harvest of plenty and bliss owing to your sowing seeds of good.

52. The love of justice in most men is only the fear of suffering injustice.

53. The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

54. The sentiment of justice is so natural, so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seem to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

55. The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

56. There is a point at which even justice does injury.

57. There is no cruder tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

58. There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

59. To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature;

60. to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

61. To hear patiently, to weigh deliberately and dispassionately, and to decide to impartially; these are the chief duties of a Judge.

62. We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

63. What is justice? - To give every man his own.

64. When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; When the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.

65. Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

66. Within me justice saith: Men are not equal; neither shall they become so.

67. Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.