James Anthony Froude on Justice
1818–1894 England
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.
The Science of History (1864)
Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
Justice without wisdom is impossible.