Absolute Quote by John Marshall

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest…

— John Marshall

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which…

— Salmon P. Chase

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

— Thomas Jefferson

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

— James Otis

The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.

— Edward Coke

“The rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present…

— Thomas Jefferson

Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to…

— Alexander Hamilton

Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

— Paul Farmer

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

— Frederic Bastiat

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

— Christina Stead