Law Quote by Richard Maxwell Brown

Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to…

— Edmund Burke

“Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them. Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with simple acts…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“What might have developed into it great controversy in England over the duty to retreat failed to occur in the absence of conditions like…

— Richard Maxwell Brown

In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the…

— George Washington

“you can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors”

— Abraham Lincoln

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals…

— Archibald Cox

“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

“Finally, this principle and its corollary lead to a conclusion, deduced as an imperative: that the objective of the exercise of power is to…

— Michel Foucault

“When you surrender what isn’t under your control, you’re not giving up a crown, you’re giving up a yoke.”

— Brent Weeks

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose…

— Luc de Clapiers

“Because the common law was not simply the creature of political power-holders, it became another of the forces for separation of powers and of…

— Thomas Sowell

What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.

— Alasdair MacIntyre