Just Behavior Quotes

The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.

I am very sensible of the unkindness and injustice that has been too much exercised towards you by the people of these parts of the world, who have sought themselves, and to make great advantages by you, rather than be examples of justice and goodness unto you; which I hear has been matter of trouble to you and caused great grudgings and animosities, sometimes to the shedding of blood, which has made the great god angry. But I am not such man as is well known in my own country. I have great love and regard toward you, and I desire to win and gain your love and friendship by a kind just, and peaceable life; and the people I send are of the same mind, and shall in all things behave themselves accordingly..

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

You should instruct men to hold fast the cause of justice, and should punish the howling of those who rage against that cause.

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.

We must become just be doing just acts.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.

Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.