| "Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "justice delayed is justice denied." »William Gladstone |
| "Next in importance to Freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained." »James Abram Garfield |
| "Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice." »Corazn Cojuangco Aquino |
| "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be." »Raymond Chandler |
| "Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "What is man's chief enemy Each man is his own." »Anacharsis Cloots |
| "The home is the chief school of human virtues." »William Ellery Channing |
| "All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education." »Sir Walter Scott |
| "The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty." »Nelson Rockefeller |
| "That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time." »John Stuart Mill |
| "When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the chief' has a nice ring to it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." »H.L. Mencken |
| "The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom." »Cyril Northcote Parkinson |
| "The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." »H.L. Mencken |
| "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." »Charles Kingsley |
| "Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom" »Laurie Anderson |
| "Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them." »Frank Moore Colby |
| "If I lived back in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, 'Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron' and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, 'That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.' Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies." »W. Wirt |
| "There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
| "I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us." »Francis Bacon |
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