Anonymous accusations should have no place in any charge. They set the worst kind of precedent and are out of keeping with the spirit of our age.
Sine auctore vero propositi libelli in nullo crimine locum habere debent. Nam et pessimi exempli nec nostri saeculi est.
Politicians
Trajan
13th Roman emperor (53-117), second of the Five Good Emperors. Born in the Hispanic colony of Italica, Trajan was the first emperor from a province. He expanded Rome to its greatest territorial extent through the Dacian and Parthian wars, formalized the alimenta welfare scheme for orphans, and was hailed by the Senate as Optimus Princeps. His conquests also produced mass enslavement in Dacia and the Kitos War uprising, and his successor Hadrian abandoned the eastern provinces almost immediately.
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Trajan's Other Quotes
They are not to be sought out. If denounced and convicted, they should be punished, but anyone who denies being a Christian and proves it in fact by praying to our gods is to be pardoned through repentance, however suspect his past.
May you be more fortunate than Augustus and better than Trajan.
The best ruler.
Use this (sword) on my behalf if I rule well; if I rule badly, use it against me.
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The first duty of justice is to harm no one.
-- Panaetius
The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the conquered cause pleased Cato.
-- Cato the Younger
Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.
-- John Rawls
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.
-- John Rawls
Deconstruction is justice.
-- Jacques Derrida
It is better to acquit a thousand guilty men than to put a single innocent man to death.
-- Moshe ben Maimon