"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."

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"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."

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"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."

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"Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot."

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"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."

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"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."

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"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."

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"The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow."

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"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."

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

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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

Martin Luther, German Leader

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"Justice is truth in action."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

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

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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