Law Quote by William Blackstone Download Open image “No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God” — William Blackstone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Law
I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far too many… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for… — William Blackstone Copy Share
The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature… — William Blackstone Copy Share
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws… — William Blackstone Copy Share
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
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