«An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.»

«By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification; these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true.»

«There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.»

«HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another --the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.»

«Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable»

«All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures»

«War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare»

«The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.»

«Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all»

«A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.»