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01c. 1811 AD

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

F. S. Key / quote

02c. 1815 AD

How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage?

Thomas Moore / quote

03c. 1815 AD

Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.

Thomas Moore / quote

04c. 1817 AD

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.

Daniel Webster / quote

05c. 1821 AD

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

Leigh Hunt / quote

06c. 1806 AD

With just enough of learning to misquote.

Lord Byron / quote

07c. 1829 AD

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

Thomas B. Macaulay / quote

08c. 1830 AD

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Douglas Jerrold / quote

09c. 1842 AD

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

10c. 1841 AD

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

William Lloyd Garrison / quote

11c. 1836 AD

I have heard the mavis singing Its love-song to the morn; I 've seen the dew-drop clinging To the rose just newly born.

Charles Jefferys / quote

12c. 1835 AD

But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning / quote

13c. 1809 AD

Who battled for the True, the Just.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

14c. 1809 AD

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise,—all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free.

Robert C. Winthrop / quote

15c. 1835 AD

There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy,—that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God. For shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

Theodore Parker / quote

16c. 1830 AD

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,— Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Edgar A. Poe / quote

17c. 1851 AD

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

Robert Browning / quote

18c. 1851 AD

Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet, Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed! So, I was afraid!

Robert Browning / quote

19c. 1851 AD

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

Robert Browning / quote

20c. 1851 AD

He who did well in war just earns the right To begin doing well in peace.

Robert Browning / quote

21c. 1851 AD

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.

Robert Browning / quote

22c. 1851 AD

For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,— How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.

Robert Browning / quote

23c. 1851 AD

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice.

Robert Browning / quote

24c. 1851 AD

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

Robert Browning / quote