"One ought to be just before one..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
One ought to be just before one is generous
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More on Justice
“The death penalty is reserved for people who do not”
“Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort to government at all) it must be so extensive as that local egoisms may never reach its greater part; that on every particular question, a majority may be found in its councils free from particular interests, and giving, therefore, an uniform prevalence to the principles of justice.”
“...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.”
More on Generosity
“A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.”
“Whoever said money can't buy happiness wasn't spending it helping people who needed it.”
“If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.”