Commonwealth Quote by Henry David Thoreau

No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

— Eric Holder

“Exogenous and blind interpretation of statutes, topped with hustled implementation of laws by the corporates, leads only to more turmoil and less productivity.”

— Henrietta Newton Martin

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

— Tacitus

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

— John Marshall

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

— Aeschylus

“The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights . He will claim that the state is obligated to…

— Frédéric Bastiat

I think we've seen time and time again that when you have a company that has captured control over a key artery of commerce,…

— Lina Khan

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

— Will Rogers

“The cupidity centered on bank statements and shareholdings is more difficult to understand than the avarice of an Elizabethan trader.”

— Penelope Lively

Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money…

— Michael Moore

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

— John D. Rockefeller

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

— Anton Chekhov