No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

Let these innocent people be careful not to invest in corporations where those in control are not men of probity, men who respect the laws; above all let them avoid the men who make it their one effort to evade or defy the laws.

In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.

We must exercise the largest charity towards the wrong-doer that is compatible with relentless war against the wrong-doing. We must be just to others, generous to others, and yet we must realize that it is a shameful and a wicked thing not to withstand oppression with high heart and ready hand.

For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God.

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.