"Justice delayed is justice denied."

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Source : Speech in House of Commons, 16 Mar. 1868.

William E. Gladstone

#Law Quotes #Justice Quotes #Fairness Quotes

“Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat.”
“I think theater will always be my first love. Ive been doing it since I was nine, and theres nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.”
“An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should exist among the people of God. It is a principle originated in hell; it is the root of all evils. It is inequality in riches that is a great curse.”
“It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in its character, - that everyone should be beneficially employed, physically and mentally, that the greatest amount of wealth may be created, and knowledge attained, - that everyone should be placed in the midst of those external circumstances that will produce the greatest number of pleasurable sensations, through the longest life, that man may be made truly intelligent, moral and happy, and be thus prepared to enter upon the coming Millennium.”

Source : "A Development of the Principles & Plans on which to establish self-supporting Home Colonies". Book by Robert Owen, 1841.
“Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophetsâ€¦. The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the words of God will nourish our souls and carry us to great heights in our endeavors.”
“It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again. Morning always grows out of the darkness, though maybe not for the people who saw the sun go down. We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind.”

Source : Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Lantern Bearers”, p.217, Macmillan
“In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.”

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