justice Quotes

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.