Education Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“Either history is really governed by laws, and in that case a truly human-activity is impossible, except perhaps in a technical sense; or human…

— Cornelius Castoriadis

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with law.”

— Immanuel Velikovsky

“the fundamental fact that law directs the ongoing of society. It is rooted in the past, determines the present, and protects the future.”

— James A. Michener

Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains…

— Lloyd deMause

“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort…

— Barack Obama

If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and…

— Immanuel Velikovsky

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

— Anonymous

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort…

— Barack Obama

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we…

— Immortal Technique

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago