Brooding Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

— Louis XIV

Law is the sovereign of sovereigns

— Louis Xiv

For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought…

— William Ernest Hocking

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

— Voltaire

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law…

— Shereen El Feki

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people,…

— Howard Zinn

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

— Carl Schmitt

The common law is nothing else but statutes worn out by time

— Russell Baker

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

— George Chapman

“Law is neither a divine revelation nor a scientific discovery. It is a wholly human creation that includes the contribution of those who claim…

— Alain Supiot

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

— Earl Warren