“It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong. Impartiality does not mean neutrality. Impartial justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”
Source: 1910s, Fear God and Take Your Own Part (1916), p. 26
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No. 11
The Federalist Papers (1787–1788)
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