Amending the constitution Quote by Francis Bacon

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress…

— Thomas Jefferson

The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself,…

— Lewis Thomas

“The pretense that the workings of the mind, like the actions of the body, are subject to the control of laws, does not seem…

— Thomas Jefferson

The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but…

— Margaret Mead

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

— Charles Darwin

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral…

— Edmund Yates

We have to modernize how we make laws.

— Birgitta Jonsdottir

“the fundamental fact that law directs the ongoing of society. It is rooted in the past, determines the present, and protects the future.”

— James A. Michener

There are ideas that exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws

— Charles Brockden Brown