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Always by its side is Justice. (Applause.) Yet Justice is nothing but Right applied to human affairs.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Always by its side is Justice. (Applause.) Yet Justice is nothing but Right applied to human affairs.”
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Sumner defines justice as the application of right in human affairs, closely tied to liberty.
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