Construction Quote by Thomas Jordan Jarvis

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

— Edmund Burke

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

— John Quincy Adams

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original…

— Edmund Burke

The Law ... is perfection of reason.

— Edward Coke

“What good are laws if they're not human?”

— Nora Roberts

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

— Russell Kirk

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation…

— Anonymous

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

— R.J. Rushdoony

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

— James Anthony Froude

The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all…

— Alexander Hamilton

Man must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. This will of his Maker is called the Law of Nature. This Law…

— William Blackstone

There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the…

— Frankie Sue Del Papa