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Law Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty…
- No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.
- Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever…
- If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the…
- The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.
- To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them…
- The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious…
- The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured.…
- Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to…
- But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even…
- Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the…
- If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is…
- Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute…
- Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it…
- The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master:…
- The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law,…
- If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a…
- Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple…
- The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even…
- Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving…
- The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law…
More Law Quotes
- 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