Justice and Equality

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right .

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

There has been only one Christian. They caught and crucified him-early.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.