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

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice