The law is silent during war

The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I have been running all about; I have knocked again at all the doors of my youth and desired to enter in there; I…

— Erich Maria Remarque

The media and politics have never allowed our people to speak through them. The absolute marginalization of the indigenous peoples is a fact, as…

— Rigoberta Menchu

“It’s a silent war that hits the poor hardest but also hammers the middle class. Its victims, for the most part, lack economic power,…

— Cathy O'Neil

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

“I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There was a war going on in our house. A silent war that sounded no guns, and the bodies that fell were only wishes…

— Anonymous

The law is like apparel, which alters with the time

— John Dodderidge

Give us kinder laws to bring us back when we're a-going wrong and don't set Jail, Jail, Jail afore us everywhere we turn

— Charles Dickens

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if…

— Frederic Bastiat

He was a lawyer who usually operated with the delicacy of a Lexington Avenue express train.

— Joyce Wadler

When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time - that was…

— Judge Curtis Bok