Alice Stone Blackwell Quotes

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

May the foundation of our new constitution be justice, Truth and Righteousness.

I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Each is indispensable to civilization. Without law, we should be at the mercy of the least scrupulous; without ethics, law could not exist.

Fair means alone can produce fair results.

I wish to do justice to all.

Fairness is really important to me.

The basis of my politics is, first of all, fairness and honesty.

Justice is truth in action.

Good morals lead to good laws.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

Justice is not a prize tendered to the good-natured, nor is it to be withheld from the ill-bred.

Let not the hatred of others make you avoid justice.

The foundation for moral leadership is the truth.

Justice, justice shall you pursue.

The Spartan principle of "calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal, just.

The headquarters of good principles.

It is not honorable to take a mere legal advantage, when it happens to be contrary to justice

I never, in all my life, took any mean advantage of an enemy.