Alexander Hamilton on justice

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Jesse Jackson1941–2026

• Life & Death
• Morality

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow1857–1938

• Patriotism