Children Quote by Henrietta Newton Martin

“I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives…

— Robert H. Jackson

Petty laws breed great crimes.

— Anonymous

“The law perverted! The law — and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation — the law, I say, not only…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity" Ch.2, 8”

— John Locke

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach…

— Robert H. Jackson

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect…

— James T. Walsh

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Out there, in no man's territory, there is no law as you know. Therefore you should create your own laws and enforce them. If…

— Toba Beta

Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to prevent both…

— Madison Grant

“There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of…

— Edward Gibbon