Cambridge university Quote by Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

— Charles de Secondat

“Justice without mercy is tyranny ~ ©1978”

— E'Jéi Osborne

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

— Baron de Montesquieu

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

— Anonymous

“The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is already halfway down the road to tyranny.”

— Simon Young

“Justice without mercy is tyranny”

— E'Jéi Osborne

“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the…

— Anonymous

“Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice”

— Anonymous

“It was the principle of this Court that deterrent laws, however strict, are useless without positive moral discipline; that the happiness of citizens depends,…

— Isocrates

“The fear of the violent and the lawless is no less a tyranny than the edicts that come from the Emperor’s throne.”

— Timothy Zahn

“The law as it is considered as a rule can be no more abolished or changed than the nature of good and evil can…

— Samuel Bolton