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The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything.
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People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.
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Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.
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The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.
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Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation to exact justice may be secured, will make for social peace, though the mere adjudication of conflicting interests will not remove the conflicts themselves nor their cause. That lies deeper than legislatures or courts can probe.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
March 25, 1865
Died:
March 8, 1961
(aged 95)
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Thomas Nixon Carver was an American economics professor.
Known for:
Essays in social justice
The distribution of wealth
Principles of rural economics
The essential factors of social evolution
Our economic life
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