Samuel Johnson Quotes about Justice

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson, John Walker (1827). “A Dictionary of the English Language”, p.617
John Taylor, Samuel Johnson (1789). “Sermons on different subjects”, p.205
Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.235
Quoted in James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785) (entry for 15 Aug. 1773)
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.142