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 god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that counts in America is to call into question the proposition that everyone has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Nevertheless, Rhetoric is useful, because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

From whence it is evident, that those who seek for what is just, seek for a mean; now law is a mean.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.