American law Quote by Abbie Hoffman Download Open image “Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.” — Abbie Hoffman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare American law Contemporary Expedience Expedience Justice Justice Justice Rule Law Laws Rule Contemporary
Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law. — Robert Breault 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 established. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Justice is the reason we have law, and law is man’s feeble attempt to teach decency to others.” — Joy Ratcliff Cagle Copy Share Image
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Lay off the needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.” — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is,… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Start with the observation that American law is not designed to catch and punish every instance of illegal conduct. Nothing short of a totalitarian… — Dale Carpenter Copy Share Image
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the archaic idea is actually winner take all, because the principle of "one person, one vote" is a principle that was introduced… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what is done… — Francis George Copy Share Image
It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation… Notwithstanding the military establishments in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
