"I think the first duty of society is justice." --Alexander Hamilton

"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint." --Alexander Hamilton

"Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar." --D.H. Lawrence

"The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied." --Haile Selassie

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." --Thomas Jefferson

"Justice delayed is justice denied." --William E. Gladstone

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