There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice