Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also… — Burke Marshall Copy Share Image
The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and… — Ada Cambridge Copy Share Image
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass,… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
I've said this when I pass the trade promotion authority law, which allows us to get trade agreements. If we write the… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Necessary policemen, firemen, street cleaners, health officers, judges, legislators and executives perform productive services as important as those of anyone in private… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems. But is it more laws that we need?… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Those people… early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will,… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas… — David Hume Copy Share Image
my choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginning to end, by the law. — William H. Pryor Copy Share Image
It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The encounters I had were very few, but they were powerful. The negative encounters I've had with law enforcement were very few,… — Bubba Wallace Copy Share Image
The Law of Detachment: 1) Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. 2) Do not force solutions -… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We are losing the war against cancer. The prohibition of new carcinogenic products, reduction of toxins in use, and right-to-know laws -… — Samuel Epstein Copy Share Image
“Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
There are those who offer themselves as leaders who even play politics with a nomination of our nations chief law enforcement officer,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
I studied law, so perhaps I might have made it to the Bar, though I gave up that idea when I suspected… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I came to believe that actually [Louis] Brandeis tended to uphold laws that he liked and strike down those that he didn't,… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense.… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image