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As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.
John Peter Altgeld
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John Peter Altgeld
Age: 54 †
Born: 1847
Born: December 30
Died: 1902
Died: March 12
Former Governor Of Illinois
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Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate.
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The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every cruelty, every wrong, reaches back sooner or later and crushes its author. Justice is moral health, bringing happiness, wrong is moral disease, bringing mortal death.
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