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“There is no power without justice.”

Politics Justice Power

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is no strength without justice.”

Politics Justice Power

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.”

Law Politics Justice Power Goodness Highest Welfare Abstract Talk To Me Public Welfare

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.”

Law Justice Power Authority Constitution Foundation Credit Mystical

Book:Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio

Source: Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio

“Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?”

Ifs Use Hands Suffering Order Dies Justice Power Sun East Firm Diminish Astonishing Sun Set

Author:Albert Camus

“Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.”

Men Should Made Might Strong Force Causes Justice Power Made It Goods Sovereign Justified

Author:Blaise Pascal

“It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general withtheir vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.”

Source: The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed

“Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.”

Ends Evil Justice Lord Power Rocks Taught Pride Honor Shining Wicked Mourn Sanctuary Fiery Robes

Book:The Christian Psalmist: Or, Watts' Psalms and Hymns, with Copious Selections from Other Sources

Source: The Christian Psalmist: Or, Watts' Psalms and Hymns, with Copious Selections from Other Sources

“But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.”

Men Believe May Truth Fighting Justice Power Theory Truth Is Tests Constitution Competition Rate Accepted Upset Freedom Of Speech

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.