Law Quotes - Page 11

• God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, God, Honesty

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Dec. 1733

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• If ye love me keep my commandments

  Robert D. Hales

  Love, Order, Obedience

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• Law is order, and good law is good order.

  Aristotle

  Order, Rule Of Law

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.181, Aeterna Press

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• But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Science, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

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• The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

  Miroslav Volf

  Agreement, Justice, Goal

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• When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.

  William Paterson

  People, Voting, Society

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• I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.

  Rand Paul

  America, Rights, Long

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Mar 06, 2013

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• The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

  William Henry Harrison

  Adventure, Government, Presidential

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• Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Change, Real, Usa

  W. Cleon Skousen “The Five Thousand Year Leap”, Verity Publishing

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• Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.

  Pat Paulsen

  Rights, Knowing, Comedian

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• Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

  Bill Maher

  War, Usa, Justice

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2013

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• That which is not just is not law.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  William Lloyd Garrison (1971). “A House Dividing Against Itself, 1836-1840”, p.220, Harvard University Press

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• Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ignorance, Feet, Persons

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• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, America

  "Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost". Book by Lawrence Thompson, 1942.

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• No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Patriotic, Men, Asking Permission

  Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. "No one is above the law" appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, "no officer ... is above the law" is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).

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• When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

  Craig Reucassel

  Lines, Anarchy, Firsts

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• Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.

  Edward Coke

  Perfection, Common, Reason

  The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England bk. 2, ch. 6 (1628)

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• We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

  William Shakespeare

  Bird, Shapes, Scarecrow

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 1, l. 1

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• The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  War, Thinking, World

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• Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Tyrants, Rights

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.224, Cambridge University Press

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• No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Trust, Freedom

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• When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Truth, Communication

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Contarini Fleming, v. 2. Count Alarcos. Popanilla”

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• Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

  William Penn

  Life, Justice, Pay

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• Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Science, Light

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.622, Pan Macmillan

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• [Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

  Charles Fort

  Wise, Art, Stars

  Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.5, Lulu.com

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