"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

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"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten."

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

"It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape."

"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free."

"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die."

"Justice is truth in action."

"It is right to give every man his due."

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience."

"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely."

"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."

"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."