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: | 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 |