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“Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?”

People Government Law Courses Wish Justice Results Doubt Industry Balance Campaigns Branches Contribution Governing Lobbying Great Results Campaign Contributions

Author:Thomas Frank

“Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.”

Men Should Heart Doe Reason Wish Justice Roots Regard Mood Hypocrisy Deceit Falsehood Inconsistent Insincerity

Author:Blaise Pascal

“We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.”

Thinking Wish Peace Justice Righteousness

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.”

Has Beens Two Home Young Three Wish Justice Cold Folks Weather Providing Sheets Disagreeable Cold Weather Bedfellows

Author:George Mason

“Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.”

People World Long Wish Justice Gone Generations Dangerous Currents Revenge Future Generation

Book:Deeply Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

Source: Deeply Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

“The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!”

Kind Children Book School Order Wish Justice Atheism Source Authority Constitution Our Children Filled Positive Atheism Horrible Gentle Passages Unjust

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.”

People Ifs Men Trying Littles Certain Wish Justice Grace Weakness Gains Affection Merit Dominant

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.”

Mean Ends Running Wish Justice Failing Noble Pursuit Sooner Or Later Popularity

Author:William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

“The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.”

Men May Light Government Spirit Culture Wish Hours Justice Path Humility Proud Diversity Glory Social Justice Forests Native Rough Shed Obscure Gloomy American Government Great Spirit

Author:Black Hawk

“We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it is not part of our policy to impose our beliefs by force or threat of force.”

Belief Force Wish Justice Share Policy Threat Conquer Creeds

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Whoever will be president, if they wish to save America from the Wrath of God and the course that America is on, which will bring about America's destruction, they must consider justice for the Black and the Red and the Brown. If they do not consider that by separating the Black man and woman and allowing us to go free to build a nation of our own, this and this alone will turn away the wrath of God, will lessen the storms, and lessen the increased Judgment of God using the forces of nature.”

“Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.”

Knows Men Love May Done Would Be Wish Justice Subjects Excellence Various Doubtful Flattered

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters