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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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946 |
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AUTHOR:
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Saint Augustine (354–430) |
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QUOTATION:
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Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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ST. AUGUSTINE, The City of God, book 19, chapter 21.—The Works of Aurelius Augustine, trans. Marcus Dods, vol. 2, p. 331 (1871). De Civitate Dei was written 413–426. |
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SUBJECTS:
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Justice |
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