“Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.” ReasonGovernmentJusticePrinciplesRevolutionEternalGloryTyrannyRighteousBoastEnmity Author:John Hancock
“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.” HomeHandsEyeJusticeHonorGoldShiningRighteousMansions Author:Aeschylus
“It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.” MenMayMatterEasyJusticeCommonKindnessRegardGratefulBottomWitBordersInjuryWhy NotExcessRighteousScrewsGood WillScrew UpsIngratitudeMischievousCommon Things Author:Seneca the Younger
“A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.” KnowsWorldArtJusticePrayerWiseFourBraveRighteousRulersRulingValor Author:Frank Herbert
“The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.” JusticeLibertyMoralInjusticePursuitResolutionRighteousVeilsIndignationMoral Indignation Author:Mark Levin