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“And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.”

Men States Evil Characteristics Good And Evil Association Unjust Nature And Animals Political Animals

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .”

States Nations Justice Teaching Eternal Ruins Doomed Indispensable Unjust Calamity

Book:Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

“We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.”

“To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.”

Wells States Whole Order Fine Spring Labor Affair Useless Compare Clock Wheels Mechanism Continents Considering Unjust Simile Representing

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799