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"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."	Reinhold Niebuhr
"Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice."	Saint Augustine
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."	Edmund Burke
"It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery."	Edmund Burke
"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."	Edmund Burke
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."	Edmund Burke
"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."	Henry Ford
"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."	Ambrose Bierce
"We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity."	Will Rogers
"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"	Will Rogers
"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."	Benjamin Franklin
"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."	Author Unknown
"The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs."	Author Unknown
"It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest."	Author Unknown
"Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master."	Jesse Jackson
"Sir, I say that justice is truth in action."	Benjamin Disraeli
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."	Jonathan Swift
"Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all."	Theodore Roosevelt
"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."	Theodore Roosevelt
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Confucius	Corazón Cojuangco Aquino	Daniel Defoe
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John Berger	John Cogley Commonweal	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jonathan Swift	Joseph Joubert	Julius Henry Marx
Leo Tolstoy	Leonard Bernstein	Lisa Alther
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marcel Ayme	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Napolean Bonaparte	Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pan Ku	Philip	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reinhold Niebuhr	Richard David Bach	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Green Ingersoll	R. J. Baughan
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