We seek only one real monument, a monument with peace and progress for its base and justice for its pinnacle.
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Justice
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The Government's paramount interest 'is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done.'
We shall be just, and we shall be prudent, and we shall also be prompt and brave, for we are determined here in America that peace shall not perish, and the cause of freedom shall not be failed.
But where great principles are at stake, compromise must not obscure the demands of justice.
We will demonstrate anew that the strong can be just in the use of strength; and the just can be strong in the defense of justice.
We believe in equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.
This crime business is just not an autumn fever.
So I am not trying to improve my character; I am trying to be just and fair and honest.
The demands upon courts of law are many, and they are varied, but the courts that we create in specialized fields as much as other courts must serve the same end, and that is the good of all men.
The purpose of all we do in this Government is justice.
Our duty, our opportunity, is to fulfill the rights of all men all over our land, not only because we shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad, but because it is right.
These common purposes--prosperity, justice, and peace--are the foundation of American unity.
We must subordinate our loyalty to any group to a greater loyalty and commitment to the moral principle upon which this Republic was founded, that is, to freedom and to justice and to the brotherhood of man.
We couldn't make any precommitments and we wouldn't sign a blank check to a treaty that we didn't know what was in it, but that we would do what was fair, what was right, and what was just.
It must be our purpose to continue steady progress until the promise of equal rights for all has been fulfilled.
We look toward the day when the men and women of Poland shall stand again in freedom and justice, and we shall hasten, by every honorable and responsible means, the arrival of that day.
The only satisfaction you get is that it is raining on the just and unjust, Republicans and Democrats.
This man is to be tried by someone, and I believe that it would be bad for anyone in official position to take advantage of official reports.