Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

Who doesn't desire his father's death?

Oddly enough success over a period of time is more expensive than failure.

Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.