Ulpian quotes

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
-- Ulpian

#Men #Justice #Fairness

No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.
-- Ulpian

#Want #Done #Injustice

A party who bequeaths a note bequeaths the claim and not merely the material on which the writing appears. This is proved by a sale, for when a note is sold, the debt by which it is evidenced is also considered to be sold.
-- Ulpian

#Party #Writing #Investing

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.