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- American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those…
- It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a…
- The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by…
- This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made,…
- [A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and that no appeal…
- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
- In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and…
- The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and…
- Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No…
- Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to…
- Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to…
- In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights are the essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its…
- If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people,…
- [I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.
- there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the…
- [R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact…
- Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken…
- I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know…
- Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sectEqual…
- If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of…
- Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable…
- They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of…
- A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust.
- The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more…
- Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson