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Henry Ward Beecher on Justice

1813–1887 United States

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When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.

Life Thoughts (1858)

Any law that takes hold of a man’s daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

Evidence of justice and law will make but a small impression on such a man, while evidence of goodness will make a prodigious impression upon him.

The Nature, Importance and Liberties of Belief (1873)

[L]ove is more just than justice.

Life Thoughts (1858)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Ward Beecher (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.