Sometimes doing the right thing wounds others — and also wounds the wounder.

When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.

This, then, do you consider, and devise how both you yourselves may be saved and this land, and I be not brought into ill odor with the citizens; for I have not absolute sovereignty, as over barbarians; but if I do just things, I shall receive just things.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

truth, she didn't care for rules of any sort; rules made little sense to a person who had grown up in a world without compassion or pity, where there was no moral code by which to abide.

The law is not concerned with trifles.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

The right of the people to be secure… against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.

He was a good man, and a just.

When I chose to run for public office, I pledged to stand with the people of Nevada rather than follow a partisan line.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave.