"Fairness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a portion of the testimony of Mr. John Caldwell Calhoun because of the uniform fairness with which he treated the race and labor problem in the section of country where he is an extensive ...
— Black and White - Land, Labor, and Politics in the South • Timothy Thomas Fortune
... themselves unable to reconcile the combatants, they released free of cost all the Carthaginian captives they were holding, sent grain to the city and permitted it to gather mercenaries from Roman allied territory. By this action they were seeking to gain a reputation for fairness rather than displaying a real interest in their own advantage, and this later caused them trouble. For the great Hamilcar Barca, after he had conquered his adversaries, did not dare to make a campaign against the Romans, much as he hated them; but ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) • Cassius Dio
... to you," said Number Thirteen in a low voice. "If you cannot understand fairness here is something you ...
— The Monster Men • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... faintest tradition, or what seems to them an apparent tradition, in support of these preconceived views; ignoring the obviously just argument that, if we are to pay any attention to mere traditions at all, we must in common fairness give priority in value to such traditions as there are, rather than such traditions as are not, but only as might be. For instance, there was a Chinese tradition that the founder of the Hia dynasty (2205 B.C.) was, in a sense, somehow connected with the barbarous kingdom of Yiieh, ...
— Ancient China Simplified • Edward Harper Parker
... clothing, of whom old England hath now so happily gotten rid. Thy buildings shall again be rummaged from the bricks of the chimney-tops to the corner-stone in thy cellars, unless deceit and rebellious cunning shall be abandoned, and the truth proclaimed with the openness and fairness of ...
— The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish • James Fenimore Cooper
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