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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 955
AUTHOR: William Henry Jewell (1789–1852)
QUOTATION: Oh Justice, when expelled from other habitations, make this thy dwelling place.
ATTRIBUTION: WILLIAM JEWELL, inscription over the door of the Boone County, Missouri, Court House.—North Todd Gentry, The Bench and Bar of Boone County, Missouri, pp. 81–82 (1916).

Lawyers trying cases in the court house were known to make “eloquent and effective” references to the motto.—Walter Ridgway, “Boone County’s Justice Motto,” Missouri Historical Review, October 1926, pp. 114–16.
SUBJECTS: Justice