“The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can either persist… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Not only the financial power, but also the legal power, has remained seated in Britain. The Washington Post commented on June 18,… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it… — Jean Froissart Copy Share Image
Let's remind ourselves that offering an opportunity for somebody to register to vote at the Department of Motor Vehicles has been required… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
“Although distortion of the past is widespread, the most common travesty is one of omission, wherein populist leaders neglect to mention the… — Richard Ashby Wilson Copy Share Image
President-elect Trump has the vision. And what Mike Pence brings to the table as vice president-elect is somebody who knows Capitol Hill.… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease… — Lily Montagu Copy Share Image
“In Oakeshott's view, ideas like natural law, fundamental values, basic rights, and "justice as fairness" are detrimental to the rule of law:… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
We should never again have an attorney general capable of saying virtually nothing as the law of major intelligence programs and the… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The lawyers have escaped most criticism [and undeservedly so]. The tax shelters [were approved by lawyers, who got paid huge commissions to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Law of Suspects. Suspects are those: who have in any way aided tyranny (royal tyranny, Brissotin tyranny...); who cannot show that they… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
I'm distraught as I look at my boys - two are African American and one is Caucasian - because too many people… — Monty Williams Copy Share Image
But I have to say, in my 12 years as the dean of admissions at Yale Law School, there was a lot… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
“Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for… — Jamie Gorelick Copy Share Image
If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
But in the financial markets, without proper institutional rules, there's the law of the jungle - because there's greed! There's nothing wrong… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Being thankful is also the law of increase. What we give thanks for is automatically multiplied. If we have only a dime… — Robert Scheid Copy Share Image
Hover boards, unfortunately, currently violate the laws of physics. Supermagnets exist, but they have to be cooled to near absolute zero, and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I'm an 'intelligent' sociopath. I don't have problems with drugs, I don't commit crimes, I don't take pleasure in hurting people, and… — M. E. Thomas Copy Share Image
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
All the science of God is going to be exposed before you, completely. You are going to know the complete science of… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“If legislation is truly necessary, one would expect the government to be able to provide proof of this beyond anecdote and speculation.… — Randy E. Barnett Copy Share Image
We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
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