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As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape or other to…

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The value of a decision as a precedent is very much enhanced by the care with which it has been considered, and…
Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on…
It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court…
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress…
Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities…
Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States…
Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject…
May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the…
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the…
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are…

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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,… — Frederic Bastiat
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't… — Gore Vidal
I am a feminist and I am totally pro-choice, but what's funny is when you say that people assume that you are… — Ellen Page
American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies. — John Lescroart
Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And… — Alan Keyes
The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise… — J C Ryle
This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed. — John Howard Griffin
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity. — Ralph Chaplin
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the… — Thomas Hutchinson
The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be… — Joseph Smith, Jr.

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