Just Quotes
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"How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!"
-Henry David Thoreau
-Henry David Thoreau
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison."
-Henry David Thoreau
-Henry David Thoreau
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
-Abraham Lincoln
-Abraham Lincoln
"That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."
-Abraham Lincoln
-Abraham Lincoln
"It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old."
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."
-Plato
-Plato
"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."
-Oscar Wilde
-Oscar Wilde
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
-Aristotle
-Aristotle
"We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
-Aristotle
-Aristotle
"Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever."
-Thomas Jefferson
-Thomas Jefferson
"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."
-Jack London
-Jack London
"When I became President, what surprised me most was that things were just as bad as I'd been saying they were."
-John F. Kennedy
-John F. Kennedy
"Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
-Sidney J. Harris
-Sidney J. Harris
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
-Benjamin Disraeli
-Benjamin Disraeli
"We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that individuals all seem to get their fifteen minutes of celebrity; everything gets only fifteen minutes."
-Meg Greenfield
-Meg Greenfield
