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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 14, 1970

This bill represents justice, because in 1906 an injustice was done in which land involved in this bill, 48,000 acres, was taken from the Indians involved, the Taos Pueblo Indians.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 10, 1970

You have understood, and have brought others to understand, the full dimensions of the contribution which the United Nations can make and must make to a world of peace and justice.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 6, 1966

Those recommendations form the framework for a just and prompt settlement, which is in the national interest.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Mar 15, 1966

We seek only one real monument, a monument with peace and progress for its base and justice for its pinnacle.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 23, 1965

The Government's paramount interest 'is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done.'

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· May 27, 1965

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.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 26, 1964

But where great principles are at stake, compromise must not obscure the demands of justice.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 17, 1964

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.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 10, 1964

So I am not trying to improve my character; I am trying to be just and fair and honest.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 30, 1964

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.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 22, 1964

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.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 6, 1964

These common purposes--prosperity, justice, and peace--are the foundation of American unity.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 4, 1964

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.

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