It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judgin...g he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They tell us that women can bring better things to pass by indirect influence. Try to persuade any man that he will have more weig...ht, more influence, if he gives up his vote, allies himself with no party and relies on influence to achieve his ends! By all means let us use to the utmost whatever influence we have, but in all justice do not ask us to be content with this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know St. Thomas Aquinas calls eternity, nunc stans, and ever-abiding now; which is easy enough to say, but though I fain would, ...yet I could never conceive it: they that can are more happy than I.... I understand as little how it can be true his Lordship says, that God is not just, but justice itself; not wise, but wisdom itself; not eternal, but eternity itself;... These phrases I find not in the Scripture; I wonder therefore what was the design of the Schoolmen to bring them up, unless they thought a man could not be a true Christian unless his understanding be first strangled with such hard sayings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The words of the Constitution ... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior d...ecisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God of justice, God of mercy, Make us merciful and just!... Help us see all your creation As from you a sacred trust. And when people cry in anguish For their own or others' pain, Show us ways to make a difference O dear God, make us humane!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have sp...ent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chief Justice. Your means are very slender, and your waste is great. Falstaff. I would it were otherwise. I would my means we...re greater, and my waist slenderer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »