Europe Quote by Peter Heather

“I was too rich to get honesty and too poor to change the order of the Roman world.”

— Richard Ben Sapir

My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the Greek civilization…

— Steve King

“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

“The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“In this ideal of justice the apparent conflict between the theories of law and the practice of everyday life is accounted for. The Teutons…

— Vilhelm Grønbech

“Only the Jews, of all the nations under Roman rule, had won the right to separate their political obligations from religious ones, to obey…

— Elaine Pagels

I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The…

— Harvey Fierstein

“It is worth noting that honoring private property rights protects not just the rich; it especially protects the poor.”

— Helen Raleigh

“Women are inherently crooked? Certainly some Muslim clerics think so—or at least, they do not believe in legal equality for women. Bangladeshi Islamic cleric…

— Robert Spencer

“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a…

— John Harrison Nichols

“Liberal” in the nineteenth-century United States and Europe designated people who in many, but not all, respects would be called conservatives in the twenty-first…

— Richard White

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?…

— Thomas Jefferson