Justified

Famous quotes containing the word justified:

“We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)