Every man Quote by Lewis F. Powell, Jr Download Open image “An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.” — Lewis F. Powell, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Every man Ifs Law May Men Orderly
“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree, but the safest way to make them respected is to make… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share
Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules. — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
“The existence of laws, regulations, and procedures has never been sufficient to compel men to obedience. Productive obedience comes through the exercise of free… — Dean L. Larsen Copy Share Image
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified. — David L. Bazelon Copy Share Image
Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Every man has his secret sadness and sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“The old intergenerational give-and-take of the country-that-used-to-be, when everyone knew his role and took the rules dead seriously, the acculturating back-and-forth that all of us here grew up with, the ritual post-immigrant struggle for success turning pathological in, of all places, the gentleman farmer's castle of our superordinary Swede (a character). A guy stacked like a deck of cards for… — Philip Roth Copy Share
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“China reminds me most of America at its own moment of transformation—the period that Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the Gilded Age, when… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image