English law Quote by Jovan Autonomašević

“Humanity as such, we might say, is a large collective drifting into the future with survival as its shared interest. This law differs from…

— Koji Suzuki

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

— Thomas Hobbes

Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.

— Joseph P. Bradley

“If a human creature is composed of two beings, and if the acknowledgment of the necessity of preserving their union is the chief mark…

— Montesquieu

“Almost all modern legal practice is derived from one of two distinct traditions. The first, the so-called civil law tradition, is a direct successor…

— William Rosen

“While the Christian and civic traditions were intrinsically suspicious of commerce, the Roman civil law was not. Rediscovered in the revival of learning in…

— Jerry Z. Muller

We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue here that…

— Enda Kenny

A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

— Roger Williams

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

— Lori Lipman Brown

It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.

— Samuel Johnson

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers…

— Chauncey Depew

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to…

— Learned Hand

The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to…

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

“So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not to control…

— Roger Scruton