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It governs behavior, resolves disputes, and imposes penalties for violations. ~ <a href="/wiki/Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy" title="Akhtar Aly Kureshy">Akhtar Aly Kureshy</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The more <a href="/wiki/Corrupt" class="mw-redirect" title="Corrupt">corrupt</a> a <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a>, the more numerous its laws. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Abbey" title="Edward Abbey">Edward Abbey</a>, <i>A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)</i> (1990).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A government of laws and not of men. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a>, "Novanglus Papers", no. 7. Reported in Charles Francis Adams, ed., <i>The Works of John Adams</i> (1851), vol. 4, p. 106. Adams published articles in 1774 in the Boston, Massachusetts, <i>Gazette</i> using the pseudonym "Novanglus". In this paper he credited James Harrington with expressing the idea this way. Harrington described government as "the empire of laws and not of men" in his 1656 work, <i>The Commonwealth of Oceana</i> (1771), p. 35. The phrase gained wider currency when Adams used it in the Massachusetts Constitution, Bill of Rights, article 30 (1780). <i>The Works of John Adams</i> (1851), vol. 4, p. 230.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Giorgio_Agamben" title="Giorgio Agamben">Giorgio Agamben</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/NTZBBfnmYowC?hl=en&gbpv=0"><i>State of Exception</i></a> (2005), chapter Four, p. 64.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Law is <a href="/wiki/King" title="King">king</a> of all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Alford" title="Henry Alford">Henry Alford</a>, <i>School of the Heart</i> (1835), Lesson 6.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Arbuthnot" title="John Arbuthnot">John Arbuthnot</a>, in Alan W. Bower and Robert A. Erickson, eds., <i>The History of John Bull</i> (1976 [first published in 1712]), chapter 6, p. 10.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Law is order, and good law is good order. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> <i>Politics</i> Book VII, 1326.a29.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Surely we will not dare say that these laws are unjust, or rather, that they are not laws at all. For it seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">Augustine of Hippo</a>, <i>On Free Choice of the Will</i>, as translated by Thomas Williams (1993) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=axCM5xaDKZ0C&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8">p. 8</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights" class="extiw" title="w:Universal Declaration of Human Rights">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a> recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the <a href="/wiki/Rule_of_law" title="Rule of law">rule of law</a>. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi" title="Aung San Suu Kyi">Aung San Suu Kyi</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs3/In_Quest_of_Democracy-ocr.pdf"><i>In Quest of Democracy</i></a> (1991).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Buste-bastiat.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Buste-bastiat.JPG/220px-Buste-bastiat.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Buste-bastiat.JPG/330px-Buste-bastiat.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Buste-bastiat.JPG/440px-Buste-bastiat.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1263" data-file-height="1683" /></a><figcaption>When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. ~ <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat" title="Frédéric Bastiat">Frédéric Bastiat</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iustitia_van_Heemskerck.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Iustitia_van_Heemskerck.png/220px-Iustitia_van_Heemskerck.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Iustitia_van_Heemskerck.png/330px-Iustitia_van_Heemskerck.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Iustitia_van_Heemskerck.png/440px-Iustitia_van_Heemskerck.png 2x" data-file-width="743" data-file-height="1023" /></a><figcaption>A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people. ~ <a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brandeis_office_1916.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Brandeis_office_1916.jpg/220px-Brandeis_office_1916.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Brandeis_office_1916.jpg/330px-Brandeis_office_1916.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Brandeis_office_1916.jpg/440px-Brandeis_office_1916.jpg 2x" data-file-width="467" data-file-height="453" /></a><figcaption>If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for the law. It invites every man to become <a href="/wiki/Individualism" title="Individualism">a law unto himself</a>. It invites <a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">anarchy</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Louis_Brandeis" title="Louis Brandeis">Louis Brandeis</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JoshuaReynoldsParty.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/JoshuaReynoldsParty.jpg/220px-JoshuaReynoldsParty.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/JoshuaReynoldsParty.jpg/330px-JoshuaReynoldsParty.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/JoshuaReynoldsParty.jpg/440px-JoshuaReynoldsParty.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="523" /></a><figcaption>Laws, like houses, lean on one another. ~ <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>All those which have written of laws, have written either as philosophers or as lawyers, and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths; and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live what is received law, and not what ought to be law: for the wisdom of a lawmaker is one, and of a lawyer is another. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a>, <i>Advancement of Learning</i> (1605), Works, III, p. 475</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It was a thing not to be done suddenly nor at one Parliament; nor scarce a whole year would suffice, to purge the statute-book nor lessen the volume of laws;-being so many in number that neither common people can half practise them, nor the lawyer sufficiently understand them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a>, recommending "an abridgment of the laws and statutes of the realm," Speech to Parliament, 1593, in <i>The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon</i>, p. 214</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>La loi est bonne, elle est nécessaire, l'exécution en est mauvaise, et les mœurs jugent les lois d'après la manière dont elles s'exécutent.</i> <ul><li>The law is good, it is necessary, its execution is poor, and the manners judge the laws based on the manner in which they are executed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac" title="Honoré de Balzac">Honoré de Balzac</a>, <i>Splendeurs et Misères des courtisanes</i> (1838-1847), part 3, <i>Où mènent les mauvais chemins</i> (<i>The Ends of Evil Ways</i>), "Ce qu'est un juge d'instruction pour ceux qui n'en ont pas" ("What a Judge Is for Those Who Do Not Have One") (title of the chapter).</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d’existence d’une agglomération d’hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.</i> <ul><li>When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat" title="Frédéric Bastiat">Frédéric Bastiat</a>, <i>Economic Sophisms</i>, 2nd series (1848), ch. 1 Physiology of plunder ("Sophismes économiques", 2ème série (1848), chap. 1 "Physiologie de la spoliation").</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You would oppose law to <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialism</a>. But it is the law which socialism invokes. It aspires to legal, not extra-legal plunder…. You wish to prevent it from taking any part in the making of laws. You would keep it outside the Legislative Palace. In this you will not succeed, I venture to prophesy, so long as legal plunder is the basis of the legislation within.<br /><br />It is absolutely necessary that this question of legal plunder should be determined, and there are only three solutions of it:—<br /><br />1. When the few plunder the many.<br />2. When everybody plunders everybody else.<br />3. When nobody plunders anybody.<br />Partial plunder, universal plunder, absence of plunder, amongst these we have to make our choice. The law can only produce one of these results.<br />Partial plunder.—This is the system which prevailed so long as the elective privilege was partial; a system which is resorted to, to avoid the invasion of socialism.<br /><br />Universal plunder.—We have been threatened by this system when the elective privilege has become universal; the masses having conceived the idea of making law, on the principle of legislators who had preceded them.<br /><br />Absence of plunder.—This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, conciliation, and of good sense. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat" title="Frédéric Bastiat">Frédéric Bastiat</a>, <i>Essays on Political Economy</i> (c. 1850s), part 4, "The Law", p. 20.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat" title="Frédéric Bastiat">Frédéric Bastiat</a>, <i>The Law</i> (1850)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher" title="Henry Ward Beecher">Henry Ward Beecher</a>, "Civil Law and the Sabbath" (sermon delivered December 3, 1882); reported in <i>Plymouth Pulpit</i> (1883), vol. 5 (new series), p. 416.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher" title="Henry Ward Beecher">Henry Ward Beecher</a>, <i>Life Thoughts</i> (1858), p. 34.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Invariability of Law. That we live in a realm of law, that we arc surrounded by laws that we cannot break, this is a truism. Yet when the fact is recognised in a real and vital way, and when it is seen to be a fact in the mental and moral world as much as in the physical, a certain sense of helplessness is apt to overpower us, as though we felt ourselves in the grip of some mighty Power, that, seizing us, whirls us away whither it will. The very reverse of this is in reality the case, for the mighty Power, when it is understood, will obediently carry us whither we will; all forces in Nature can be used in proportion as they are understood “Nature is conquered by obedience ” — and her resistless energies are at our bidding as soon as we, by knowledge, work with them and not against them. We can choose out of her boundless stores the forces that serve our purpose in momentum, in direction, and so on, and their very invariability becomes the guarantee of our success. p. 6 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/TheosophicalManualsNoIVKarma">Theosophical Manuals No IV: <i>Karma</i>, by Annie Besant</a> (1895)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>On the invariability of law depend the security of scientific experiment, and all power of planning a result and of predicting the future. On this the chemist rests, sure that Nature will ever respond in the same way, if he be precise in putting his questions. A variation in his results is taken by him as implying a change in his procedure, not a change in Nature. And so with all human action; the more it is based on knowledge, the more secure is it in its forecastings, for all “accident" is the result of ignorance, and is due to the working of laws whose presence was unknown or overlooked. In the mental and moral worlds, as much as in the physical, results can be foreseen, planned for, calculated on. Nature never betrays us; we are betrayed by our own blindness. p. 7 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/TheosophicalManualsNoIVKarma">Theosophical Manuals No IV: <i>Karma</i>, by Annie Besant</a> (1895)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>That law should be as invariable in the mental and moral worlds as in the physical is to be expected, since the universe is the emanation of the One, and what we call Law is but the expression of the Divine Nature. As there is one Lite emanating all, so there is one Law sustaining all ; the worlds rest on this rock of the Divine Nature as on a secure, immutable foundation. p.7 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/TheosophicalManualsNoIVKarma">Theosophical Manuals No IV: <i>Karma</i>, by Annie Besant</a> (1895)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This assurance that <b>perfect Justice rules the world</b> finds support from the increasing knowledge of the evolving Soul; for as it advances and begins to see on higher planes and to transmit its knowledge to the waking consciousness, we learn with ever-growing certainty, and therefore with ever-increasing joy, that the Good Law is working with undeviating accuracy, that its Agents apply it everywhere with unerring insight, with unfailing strength, and that all is therefore very well with the world and with its struggling Souls. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, Theosophical Manuals No IV: <i>Karma</i>, by Annie Besant (1895)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Such is an outline of the great Law of <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">Karma</a> and of its workings, by a knowledge of which a man may accelerate his evolution, by the utilization of which a man may free himself from bondage, and become, long ere his race has trodden its course, one of the Helpers and Saviours of the World. A deep and steady conviction of the truth of this Law gives to life an immovable serenity and a perfect fearlessness: nothing can touch us that we have not wrought, nothing can injure us that we have not merited. And as everything that we have sown must ripen into harvest in due season, and must be reaped, it is idle to lament over the reaping when it is painful; it may as well be done now as at any future time, since it cannot be evaded, and, once done, it cannot return to trouble us again. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, <i>Karma</i>, (1895) Ch. XIII, Conclusion</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ere man could know what was right, he had to learn the existence of the law, and this he could only learn by following all that attracted him in the outer world, by grasping every desirable object, and then by learning from experience, sweet or bitter, whether his delight was in harmony or in conflict with the law. Let us take an obvious example, the taking of pleasant food, and see how infant man might learn there from the presence of a natural law. At the first taking, his hunger was appeased, his taste was gratified, and only pleasure resulted from the experience, for his action was in harmony with law. On another occasion, desiring to increase pleasure, he ate overmuch and suffered in consequence, for he transgressed against the law. A confusing experience to the dawning intelligence, how the pleasurable became painful by excess. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant#The_Ancient_Wisdom_(1897)" title="Annie Besant"><i>The Ancient Wisdom</i></a>, Chapter VII, Reincanation, (1897)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Over and over again he would be led by desire into excess, and each time he would experience the painful consequences, until at last he learned moderation, i.e., he learned to conform his bodily acts in this respect to physical law; for he found that there were conditions which affected him and which he could not control, and that only by observing them could physical happiness be insured. Similar experiences flowed in upon him through all the bodily organs, with undeviating regularity; his outrushing desires brought him pleasure or pain just as they worked with the laws of Nature or against them, and, as experience increased, it began to guide his steps, to influence his choice. It was not as though he had to begin his experience anew with every life, for on each <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">new birth</a> he brought with him mental faculties a little increased, and ever-accumulating store. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant#The_Ancient_Wisdom_(1897)" title="Annie Besant"><i>The Ancient Wisdom</i></a>, Chapter VII, Reincanation, (1897)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a>. 'Industrial Discontent', <i>The Shadow on the Dial and other Essays</i> (1909).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[L]aw neither reflects nor distorts a social world of subjects that exists independent of it. Instead, law helps compose the social world. <ul><li>Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg, “Cultural Criticism of Law”, “Stanford Law Review 49 (1997): 1152; as quoted in Thomas R. Kearns (August 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=J_9YVh0QmUQC">“History, Memory, and the Law”</a>. University of Michigan Press. Footnote 8, p.3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bolt" title="Robert Bolt">Robert Bolt</a>, <i>A Man for All Seasons</i> (1967), act II, p. 92. Sir Thomas More is speaking.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Wo wir unfähig sind, die Gesetze der Notwendigkeit zu erkennen, da glauben wir, frei zu sein.</i> <ul><li>When we are incapable of recognizing the laws of necessity, we believe ourselves to be free. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_B%C3%B6rne" class="extiw" title="w:Ludwig Börne">Ludwig Börne</a>, as quoted in <i>Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists</i> (2007) by James Geary, p. 16. <ul><li>Variant translation: Wherever it is impossible for us to recognize the law of necessity, we believe we are free.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>[N]o law, written or unwritten, can be understood without a full knowledge of the facts out of which it arises, and to which it is to be applied.</b> <ul><li>Justice <a href="/wiki/Louis_Brandeis" title="Louis Brandeis">Louis Brandeis</a> <i>The Living Law</i>, 10 Illinois Law Review 461, 467 (1915-16).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for the law. It invites every man to become <a href="/wiki/Individualism" title="Individualism">a law unto himself</a>. It invites <a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">anarchy</a>.</b> <ul><li>Justice <a href="/wiki/Louis_Brandeis" title="Louis Brandeis">Louis Brandeis</a>, dissenting; <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmstead_v._United_States" class="extiw" title="w:Olmstead v. United States">Olmstead v. United States</a></i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=277&page=438">277 U.S. 438, (1928)</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The law is simply and solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it or of those who, for naked need, cannot obey it.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht" title="Bertolt Brecht">Bertolt Brecht</a>, <i>The Threepenny Opera</i> Act 3, scene 1, p. 74, character of Polly Peachum</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As in elections, the law pretended universal rights, while securing the interests of powerful houses. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Brin" title="David Brin">David Brin</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Season" class="extiw" title="w:Glory Season">Glory Season</a></i> (1993), chapter 27.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Laws, like houses, lean on one another.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a>, From the <i>Tracts Relative to the Laws Against Popery in Ireland</i> (c. 1766), not published during Burke's lifetime.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our wrangling lawyers ... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burton" title="Robert Burton">Robert Burton</a>, <i>The Anatomy of Melancholy</i> (1621), <i>Democritus to the Reader</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Your <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pettifog" class="extiw" title="w:Pettifog">pettifoggers</a> damn their souls,<br />To share with knaves in cheating <a href="/wiki/Fools" title="Fools">fools</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Butler_(poet)" title="Samuel Butler (poet)">Samuel Butler</a>, <i>Hudibras</i>, Part II (1664), Canto I, line 515.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Is not the winding up witnesses,<br />And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?<br />For witnesses, like watches, go<br />Just as they're set, too fast or slow;<br />And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,<br />'Tis ten to one that side is cast. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Butler_(poet)" title="Samuel Butler (poet)">Samuel Butler</a>, <i>Hudibras</i>, Part II (1664), Canto II, line 359.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:M-T-Cicero.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/M-T-Cicero.jpg/220px-M-T-Cicero.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/M-T-Cicero.jpg/330px-M-T-Cicero.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/M-T-Cicero.jpg/440px-M-T-Cicero.jpg 2x" data-file-width="709" data-file-height="953" /></a><figcaption>True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrong-doing by its prohibitions. ~ <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Tullius_Cicero" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Tullius Cicero">Marcus Tullius Cicero</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.jpg/220px-United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="261" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.jpg/330px-United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.jpg/440px-United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3923" data-file-height="4656" /></a><figcaption>It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation. ~ <a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Calvin Coolidge</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed. <ul><li>J. Chase, writing the opinion in <i>Norton vs. Shelby County</i>, 118 U.S. 425, p. 442.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A world contrary to God must be kept within bounds by the world’s sword. But true Christians love God and their neighbors as themselves; they commit no evil by the grace of God. It is not necessary to compel them to goodness since they know better what is good than the law imposing <a href="/wiki/Authority" title="Authority">authority</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Petr_Chel%C4%8Dick%C3%BD" title="Petr Chelčický">Petr Chelčický</a>, <i>Net of Faith</i> (1443), E. Molnár, trans. (1947), Chapter 95.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For there is but one essential <a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">justice</a> which cements <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a>, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a>, which is the true <a href="/wiki/Rule" class="mw-disambig" title="Rule">rule</a> of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is <a href="/wiki/Necessity" title="Necessity">necessarily</a> unjust and wicked. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Tullius_Cicero" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Tullius Cicero">Marcus Tullius Cicero</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Legibus" class="extiw" title="w:De Legibus"><i>De Legibus (On the Laws)</i></a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=SRwYAAAAYAAJ&q=%22For+There+is+but+one+essential+justice+which+cements+society+and+one+law+which+establishes+this+justice+This+law+is+right+reason+which+is+the+true+rule+of+all+commandments+and+prohibitions+Whoever+neglects+this+law+whether+written+or+unwritten+is+necessarily+unjust+and+wicked%22&pg=PA417#v=onepage">Book I, Chapter XV</a> (translation by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duke_Yonge" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Duke Yonge">C.D. Yonge</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its <a href="/wiki/Commands" class="mw-redirect" title="Commands">commands</a>, and averts from wrong-doing by its prohibitions. And it does not lay its commands or prohibitions upon good men in vain, though neither have any effect on the wicked. It is a <a href="/wiki/Sin" title="Sin">sin</a> to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely. We cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it. And there will not be different laws at Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times, and there will be one master and ruler, that is, God, over us all, for he is the author of this law, its promulgator, and its enforcing <a href="/wiki/Judge" class="mw-disambig" title="Judge">judge</a>. Whoever is disobedient is fleeing from himself and denying his human nature, and by reason of this very fact he will suffer the worst penalties, even if he escapes what is commonly considered punishment. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Tullius_Cicero" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Tullius Cicero">Marcus Tullius Cicero</a>, <i>De Re Publica</i> (<i>The Republic</i>), book 3, paragraph 22; in <i>De Re Publica, De Legibus</i>, trans. Clinton W. Keyes (1943), p. 211.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Voltairine_de_Cleyre" title="Voltairine de Cleyre">Voltairine de Cleyre</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/cleyre/etf.html">"The Economic Tendency of Freethought" in <i>Liberty</i>, Vol. XI, #25 (15 February 1890)</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>, First presidential debate, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/26/the-first-trump-clinton-presidential-debate-transcript-annotated/#annotations:10505575">Transcript</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Washington Post">Washington Post</a></i> (September 26, 2016).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. That state is most fortunate in its form of government which has the aptest instruments for the discovery of law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Calvin Coolidge</a>, to the Massachusetts State Senate, January 7, 1914</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Calvin Coolidge</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge%27s_Speech_on_the_Occasion_of_the_150th_Anniversary_of_the_Declaration_of_Independence" class="extiw" title="s:Calvin Coolidge's Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence">Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence</a>", 5 July 1926.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a>, in a speech to the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roque_Dalton_(1969).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Roque_Dalton_%281969%29.jpg/220px-Roque_Dalton_%281969%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Roque_Dalton_%281969%29.jpg/330px-Roque_Dalton_%281969%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Roque_Dalton_%281969%29.jpg/440px-Roque_Dalton_%281969%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="444" data-file-height="284" /></a><figcaption>Laws are created to be followed<br />by the poor.<br />Laws are made by the rich<br />to bring some order to exploitation.<br />The poor are the only law abiders in history.<br />When the poor make laws<br />the rich will be no more.<br />~ <a href="/wiki/Roque_Dalton" title="Roque Dalton">Roque Dalton</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JUL_Soul_Iris.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/JUL_Soul_Iris.png/220px-JUL_Soul_Iris.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/JUL_Soul_Iris.png 1.5x" data-file-width="292" data-file-height="292" /></a><figcaption>Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous <a href="/wiki/Necessity" title="Necessity">Necessity</a>— by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. <i>These</i> are <a href="/wiki/Miracles" title="Miracles">miracles</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity — by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. <i>These</i> are miracles. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a>, in speaking of the pupil of the eye in <i>The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci</i>, Vol. I, as translated by Jean Paul Richter (1888).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Las leyes son para que las cumplan<br />los pobres.<br />Las leyes son hechas por los ricos<br />para poner un poco de orden a la explotación.<br />Los pobres son los únicos cumplidores de leyes de la historia.<br />Cuando los pobres hagan las leyes<br />ya no habrá ricos</i>. <ul><li>Laws are created to be followed<br />by the poor.<br />Laws are made by the rich<br />to bring some order to exploitation.<br />The poor are the only law abiders in history.<br />When the poor make laws<br />the rich will be no more. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roque_Dalton" title="Roque Dalton">Roque Dalton</a>, <i>Poema de Amor</i></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law of <a href="/wiki/Jehovah" title="Jehovah">Jehovah</a> is perfect, restoring strength. The reminder of Jehovah is trustworthy, making the inexperienced one wise. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/b/r1/lp-e/nwt/E/2013/19/19#h=331:0-333:0">Psalm 19:7</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_World_Translation" class="mw-redirect" title="New World Translation">New World Translation</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Make every private Sentinel, every Musquetier, both Judge, Jury, and Executioner. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Defoe" title="Daniel Defoe">Daniel Defoe</a>, "Memoirs of the Church of Scotland" (1717).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Even if laws are neutrally applied to all, they are still unjust when they are applied to seek immoral ends. It is unacceptable and dangerous when laws undermine <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">marriage</a>, destroy <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>, or promote false understandings of life and the human person. It doesn’t matter if 51 percent of the population supports it — majority support does not make a law good, tolerable, or legitimate. <ul><li>Frank DeVito, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thefederalist.com/2023/12/13/powerful-pro-abortion-democrats-single-out-life-giving-religious-groups-for-legal-persecution/">"Powerful Pro-Abortion Democrats Single Out Life-Giving Religious Groups For Legal Persecution"</a>, <i>The Federalist</i> (December 13, 2023)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Law can only prohibit such actions as are hurtful to society. Nothing may be prevented which is not forbidden by law, and no one may be forced to do anything not provided for by law. <ul><li><i>Declaration of the Rights of Man</i>, France 1789, Fourth</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is a ass, a idiot." If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience—by experience". <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <i>Oliver Twist</i> (first published serially 1837–1839; 1970 edition), chapter 51, p. 489.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <i>Bleak House</i> (1853).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If it's near dinner time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury have retired and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else except two men who ought to have dined at three, and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch: "Well, gentlemen, what do we say? Plaintiff, defendant, gentlemen? I rather think so far as I am concerned, gentlemen — I say I rather think — but don't let that influence you — I rather think the plaintiff's the man." Upon this two or three other men are sure to say they think so too — as of course they do; and then they get on very unanimously and comfortably. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pickwick_Papers" class="mw-redirect" title="Pickwick Papers">Pickwick Papers</a></i> (1836), Volume II, Chapter VI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I know'd what 'ud come o' this here mode o' doin' business. Oh, Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pickwick_Papers" class="mw-redirect" title="Pickwick Papers">Pickwick Papers</a></i> (1836), Volume II, Chapter VI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Nickleby" title="Nicholas Nickleby">Nicholas Nickleby</a></i> (1838-1839), Chapter XLVI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I know it is said that marital alliance between these races is unnatural, abhorrent and impossible; but exclamations of this kind only shake the air. They prove nothing against a stubborn fact like that which confronts us daily and which is open to the observation of all. If this blending of the two races were impossible we should not have at least one-fourth of our colored population composed of persons of mixed blood, ranging all the way from a dark-brown color to the point where there is no visible admixture. Besides, it is obvious to common sense that there is no need of the passage of laws, or the adoption of other devices, to prevent what is in itself impossible. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass" title="Frederick Douglass">Frederick Douglass</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-future-of-the-colored-race/">"The Future of the Colored Race"</a> (May 1886).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We live in and by the law. It makes us what we are: citizens and employees and doctors and spouses and people who own things. It is sword, shield, and menace: we insist on our wage, or refuse to pay our rent, or are forced to forfeit penalties, or are closed up in jail, all in the name of what our abstract and ethereal sovereign, the law, has decreed. And we <i>argue</i> about what it has decreed, even when the books that are supposed to record its commands and directions are silent; we act then as if law had muttered its doom, too low to be heard distinctly. We are subjects of law's empire, liegemen to its methods and ideals, bound in spirit while we debate what we must therefore do. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Dworkin" title="Ronald Dworkin">Ronald Dworkin</a>, Preface to <i>Law's Empire</i> (1986).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Epicurus-PergamonMuseum.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Epicurus-PergamonMuseum.png/220px-Epicurus-PergamonMuseum.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="387" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Epicurus-PergamonMuseum.png/330px-Epicurus-PergamonMuseum.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Epicurus-PergamonMuseum.png/440px-Epicurus-PergamonMuseum.png 2x" data-file-width="1023" data-file-height="1801" /></a><figcaption>If a man makes a law and it does not prove to be mutually advantageous, then this is no longer just. ~ <a href="/wiki/Epicurus" title="Epicurus">Epicurus</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>They constantly try to escape</li></ul> <dl><dd>From the darkness outside and within</dd> <dd>By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot" title="T. S. Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a>, <i>The Rock</i>.</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><b> Among the things held to be just by law, whatever is proved to be of advantage in men's dealings has the stamp of justice, whether or not it be the same for all; but </b>if a man makes a law and it does not prove to be mutually advantageous, then this is no longer just.<b> And if what is mutually advantageous varies and only for a <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> corresponds to our concept of justice, nevertheless for that time it is just for those who do not trouble themselves about empty <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a>, but look simply at the <a href="/wiki/Facts" class="mw-redirect" title="Facts">facts</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Epicurus" title="Epicurus">Epicurus</a>, Number 37 of the 40 "Sovran Maxims" (or "Sovereign Maxims), or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://classics.mit.edu/Epicurus/princdoc.html">"Principal Doctrines" as translated by Robert Drew Hicks</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>* <b>We look upon this shaken Earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose — the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails. The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard.</b> And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning — and ready to pay its full price. We know clearly what we seek, and why. We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself. Yet this peace we seek cannot be born of fear alone: it must be rooted in the lives of nations. <b>There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce. There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak. But the law of which we speak, comprehending the values of freedom, affirms the equality of all nations, great and small. Splendid as can be the blessings of such a peace, high will be its cost: in toil patiently sustained, in help honorably given, in sacrifice calmly borne.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dwight_Eisenhower%27s_Second_Inaugural_Address" class="extiw" title="s:Dwight Eisenhower's Second Inaugural Address">Second Inaugural Address (21 January 1957)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:American_law_digests.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/American_law_digests.jpg/220px-American_law_digests.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/American_law_digests.jpg/330px-American_law_digests.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/American_law_digests.jpg/440px-American_law_digests.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1796" data-file-height="1490" /></a><figcaption>If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. ~ <a href="/wiki/Felix_Frankfurter" title="Felix Frankfurter">Felix Frankfurter</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Let me make the ballads of a nation and I care not who makes its laws. <ul><li>Variant from <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Fletcher" title="Andrew Fletcher">Andrew Fletcher</a>, <i>An Account of a Conversation Concerning a Right Regulation of Governments for the Common Good of Mankind</i>, 1703</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.</i> <ul><li>In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anatole_France" title="Anatole France">Anatole France</a>, <i><a class="external text" href="https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Lys_rouge/VII">Le Lys Rouge</a></i> [The Red Lily] (1894), ch. 7 <ul><li>Variant: How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then <a href="/wiki/Tyranny" title="Tyranny">tyranny</a>. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Felix_Frankfurter" title="Felix Frankfurter">Felix Frankfurter</a>, concurring, <i>United States v. Mine Workers</i>, 330 U.S. 312 (1946).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am a lover of <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>, a worshipper of <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>, a celebrant at the altar of <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a> and <a href="/wiki/Purity" title="Purity">purity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tolerance" title="Tolerance">tolerance</a>. That is my <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>, and every day I am sorely, grossly, heinously and deeply offended, wounded, mortified and injured by a thousand different blasphemies against it. When the fundamental canons of truth, <a href="/wiki/Honesty" title="Honesty">honesty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">compassion</a> and decency are hourly assaulted by fatuous bishops, pompous, illiberal and ignorant priests, politicians and prelates, sanctimonious censors, self-appointed moralists and busy-bodies, what recourse of ancient laws have I? None whatever. Nor would I ask for any. For unlike these blistering imbeciles my <a href="/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">belief</a> in my religion is strong and I know that <a href="/wiki/Lies" class="mw-redirect" title="Lies">lies</a> will always fail and indecency and intolerance will always perish. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Fry" title="Stephen Fry">Stephen Fry</a>, in his "Trefusis Blasphemes" radio broadcast, as published in <i>Paperweight</i> (1993).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Clarence_Earl_Gideon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Clarence_Earl_Gideon.jpg/220px-Clarence_Earl_Gideon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="316" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Clarence_Earl_Gideon.jpg/330px-Clarence_Earl_Gideon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Clarence_Earl_Gideon.jpg/440px-Clarence_Earl_Gideon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="861" /></a><figcaption>I believe that each era finds an improvement in law for the benefit of mankind. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Earl_Gideon" class="extiw" title="w:Clarence Earl Gideon">Clarence Earl Gideon</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman,_1847-1935.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman%2C_1847-1935.JPG/220px-A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman%2C_1847-1935.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="279" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman%2C_1847-1935.JPG/330px-A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman%2C_1847-1935.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman%2C_1847-1935.JPG/440px-A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman%2C_1847-1935.JPG 2x" data-file-width="446" data-file-height="566" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Necessity" title="Necessity">Necessity</a> knows no law but makes law. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratian_(jurist)" class="extiw" title="w:Gratian (jurist)">Gratian</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>I believe that each era finds a [sic] improvement in law each year brings something new for the benefit of mankind.</b> Maybe this will be one of those small steps forward, in the past thirty-five years I have seen great advancement in <a href="/wiki/Courts" title="Courts">courts</a> in penal servitude. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Earl_Gideon" class="extiw" title="w:Clarence Earl Gideon">Clarence Earl Gideon</a>, Letter from Clarence Earl Gideon to Abe Fortas (November 1962), page 22, Quoted in: Anthony Lewis, Gideon's Trumpet 65-78 (Vintage 1966) (1964), note 2 at page 78. Source: Jack King (2012): <i>Clarence Earl Gideon: Unlikely World-Shaker</i>. The Champion Issue June 2012 by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, page 58. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200813231044/https://www.nacdl.org/Article/June2012-ClarenceEarlGideonUnlikelyWorl">Archived</a> from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nacdl.org/Article/June2012-ClarenceEarlGideonUnlikelyWorl">the original</a> on August 13, 2020.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Law is the true embodiment,<br />Of everything that's excellent,<br />It has no kind of fault or flaw,<br />And I, my Lords, embody the Law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/W.S._Gilbert" class="mw-redirect" title="W.S. Gilbert">W.S. Gilbert</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iolanthe" class="extiw" title="w:Iolanthe">Iolanthe</a></i> (1882).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The function of the <a href="/wiki/Lawyer" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawyer">lawyer</a> is to preserve a <a href="/wiki/Skepticism" title="Skepticism">sceptical</a> <a href="/wiki/Relativism" title="Relativism">relativism</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> hell-bent for absolutes. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Hell</a> there will be nothing but law and due process will be meticulously observed.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Gilmore" class="extiw" title="w:Grant Gilmore">Grant Gilmore</a>, <i>The Ages of American Law</i> (1977), p. 110.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith" title="Oliver Goldsmith">Oliver Goldsmith</a>, <i>The Traveller</i> (1764), line 386. Same in <i>Vicar of Wakefield</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The rule of law can be wiped out in one misguided, however well-intentioned generation. And if that should happen, it could take a century of striving and ordeal to restore it, and then only at the cost of the lives of many good men and women. <ul><li>William T. Gossett, President of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bar_Association" class="extiw" title="w:American Bar Association">American Bar Association</a> in a speech (9 August 1969).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cary_Grant" title="Cary Grant">Cary Grant</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.carygrant.net/articles/thinks%20about.htm">"Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About"</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheilah_Graham_Westbrook" class="extiw" title="w:Sheilah Graham Westbrook">Sheilah Graham Westbrook</a> in <i>Motion Picture</i> (June 1964).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a>, <i>Inaugural Address</i> (4 March 1869).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you cannot recognise the will of the Führer as a source of law, then you cannot remain a <a href="/wiki/Judge" class="mw-disambig" title="Judge">judge</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_G%C3%BCrtner" class="extiw" title="w:Franz Gürtner">Franz Gürtner</a> response to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Kreyssig" class="extiw" title="w:Lothar Kreyssig">Lothar Kreyssig</a>; as quoted in Kershaw, Ian (2000). <i>Hitler: 1936–1945 Nemesis</i>. II. New York: Norton. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780393322521" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 978-0-393-32252-1</a>. p.254.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Muttich,_Kamil_Vladislav_-_Posledni_vyzvani_mistru_Husovi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Muttich%2C_Kamil_Vladislav_-_Posledni_vyzvani_mistru_Husovi.jpg/220px-Muttich%2C_Kamil_Vladislav_-_Posledni_vyzvani_mistru_Husovi.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="342" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Muttich%2C_Kamil_Vladislav_-_Posledni_vyzvani_mistru_Husovi.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="322" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>The only law that a Christian should listen to and read is the law of God's Commandments. And it is not right to comply with, implement or observe any other law. ~ <a href="/wiki/Jan_Hus" title="Jan Hus">Jan Hus</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Marshall_Harlan" title="John Marshall Harlan">John Marshall Harlan</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson" class="extiw" title="w:Plessy v. Ferguson">Plessy v. Ferguson</a></i>, 163 U.S. 537, 559 (1896).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can’t be enforced weakens all other laws. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_(novel)" class="extiw" title="w:Friday (novel)">Friday</a></i> (1982), <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-345-30988-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-345-30988-X">ISBN 0-345-30988-X</a>, p. 241</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The laws were very comical; to bet was voted lax,<br />But your betting was the only thing that nobody could tax. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A._P._Herbert" title="A. P. Herbert">A. P. Herbert</a>, Speech to Parliament, 1930s; as quoted in <i>The Pendulum Years</i> (1970) by Bernard Levin, p. 16.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience... The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.">Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Common_Law" class="extiw" title="w:The Common Law">The Common Law</a></i> (1881), p. 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The only law that a Christian should listen to and read is the law of God's Commandments. And it is not right to comply with, implement or observe any other law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Hus" title="Jan Hus">Jan Hus</a> in <i>Výklad viery, desatera a páteře</i> (<i>Interpretation of the Faith, the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer</i>) as quoted in <i>A Companion to Jan Hus</i> (2015) by František Šmahel (ed.), pp. 231.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States_-_Philosophical_Swag.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States_-_Philosophical_Swag.jpg/220px-Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States_-_Philosophical_Swag.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States_-_Philosophical_Swag.jpg/330px-Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States_-_Philosophical_Swag.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States_-_Philosophical_Swag.jpg/440px-Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States_-_Philosophical_Swag.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. [...] But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. ~ <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman,_1847-1935.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman%2C_1847-1935.JPG/220px-A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman%2C_1847-1935.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="279" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman%2C_1847-1935.JPG/330px-A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman%2C_1847-1935.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman%2C_1847-1935.JPG/440px-A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman%2C_1847-1935.JPG 2x" data-file-width="446" data-file-height="566" /></a><figcaption>The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law. Law has not failed--and is not failing. We as a nation have failed ourselves by not trusting the law and by not using the law to gain sooner the ends of justice which law alone serves. ~ <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions.</b> I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. <b>But</b> I know also, that <b>laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind</b>. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and <b>keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors</b>. It is this preposterous idea which has lately deluged Europe in blood. Their monarchs, instead of wisely yielding to the gradual change of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung to old abuses, entrenched themselves behind steady habits, and obliged their subjects to seek through blood and violence rash and ruinous innovations, which, had they been referred to the peaceful deliberations and collected wisdom of the nation, would have been put into acceptable and salutary forms. Let us follow no such examples, nor weakly believe that one generation is not as capable as another of taking care of itself, and of ordering its own affairs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://classicliberal.tripod.com/jefferson/kercheval.html">Letter to H. Tompkinson (AKA Samuel Kercheval), 12 July 1816</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page049.db&recNum=254">image</a> at Library of Congress).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But <b>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. </b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany (4 April 1819).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Do not lay down any <a href="/wiki/Rules" title="Rules">rules</a> beyond what I appointed you, and do not give a law like the lawgiver lest you be constrained by it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>, attributed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mary#Which_Mary?" class="extiw" title="w:Gospel of Mary">Mary</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Codex" title="Berlin Codex">Berlin Codex</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mary" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Gospel of Mary">Gospel of Mary</a></i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm">Chapter 4</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The ruling powers tell us poor lower-class folks that we have an obligation, a social responsibility to society, to abide by the law, but they don’t have any social responsibility to us to help us meet our needs. It’s pure <a href="/wiki/Bourgeoisie" title="Bourgeoisie">bourgeoisie</a> <a href="/wiki/Class_conflict" title="Class conflict">class-based</a> <a href="/wiki/Ideology" title="Ideology">morality</a>, a morality that serves the <a href="/wiki/Ruling_class" title="Ruling class">ruling class</a>, not the <a href="/wiki/Masses" title="Masses">masses</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Oppressed" class="mw-redirect" title="Oppressed">oppressed</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rashid_Johnson" title="Kevin Rashid Johnson">Kevin Rashid Johnson</a>, <i>Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin Rashid Johnson</i> (2010)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of <a href="/wiki/Injustice" title="Injustice">injustice</a> and <a href="/wiki/Inequality" class="mw-redirect" title="Inequality">inequality</a> is a history of disuse of the law. Law has not failed--and is not failing. We as a nation have failed ourselves by not trusting the law and by not using the law to gain sooner the ends of justice which law alone serves. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a>, speaking at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg,_Pennsylvania" class="extiw" title="w:Gettysburg, Pennsylvania">Gettysburg, Pennsylvania</a> on the occasional of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day" class="extiw" title="w:Memorial Day">Memorial Day</a> (May 30, 1963). Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/630530.asp">Press Release, "5/30/63, Remarks by Vice President, Memorial Day, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania," Statements File, Box 80, LBJ Library.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We all know that the roots of injustice run deep. But violence cannot redress a solitary wrong, or remedy a single unfairness. Of course, all America is outraged at the assassination of <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Luther King, Jr.">an outstanding Negro leader</a> who was at that meeting that afternoon in the White House in 1966. And America is also outraged at the looting and the burning that defiles our democracy. We just must put our shoulders together and put a stop to both. The time is here. Action must be now. So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=28799&st=&st1=#axzz2gguIRFi1">"Remarks Upon Signing the Civil Rights Act.," April 11, 1968. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RGB_LED_Rainbow_from_7th_symmetry_cylindrical_grating.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/RGB_LED_Rainbow_from_7th_symmetry_cylindrical_grating.jpg/220px-RGB_LED_Rainbow_from_7th_symmetry_cylindrical_grating.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/RGB_LED_Rainbow_from_7th_symmetry_cylindrical_grating.jpg/330px-RGB_LED_Rainbow_from_7th_symmetry_cylindrical_grating.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/RGB_LED_Rainbow_from_7th_symmetry_cylindrical_grating.jpg/440px-RGB_LED_Rainbow_from_7th_symmetry_cylindrical_grating.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2415" data-file-height="2415" /></a><figcaption>Times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress. ~ <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy">Anthony Kennedy</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:THE_HOPE_OF_ALL_THE_WORLD_-_NARA_-_515613.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/THE_HOPE_OF_ALL_THE_WORLD_-_NARA_-_515613.jpg/220px-THE_HOPE_OF_ALL_THE_WORLD_-_NARA_-_515613.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/THE_HOPE_OF_ALL_THE_WORLD_-_NARA_-_515613.jpg/330px-THE_HOPE_OF_ALL_THE_WORLD_-_NARA_-_515613.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/THE_HOPE_OF_ALL_THE_WORLD_-_NARA_-_515613.jpg/440px-THE_HOPE_OF_ALL_THE_WORLD_-_NARA_-_515613.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2045" /></a><figcaption>The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you disagree as well as those with which you agree. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1660_blk_19329_zoom.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/1660_blk_19329_zoom.png/220px-1660_blk_19329_zoom.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/1660_blk_19329_zoom.png/330px-1660_blk_19329_zoom.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/1660_blk_19329_zoom.png/440px-1660_blk_19329_zoom.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Majesty_of_Law_Rayburn.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Majesty_of_Law_Rayburn.JPG/220px-Majesty_of_Law_Rayburn.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Majesty_of_Law_Rayburn.JPG/330px-Majesty_of_Law_Rayburn.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Majesty_of_Law_Rayburn.JPG/440px-Majesty_of_Law_Rayburn.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2938" data-file-height="3917" /></a><figcaption>Law is the adhesive force in the cement of society, creating <a href="/wiki/Order" title="Order">order</a> out of chaos and coherence in place of anarchy. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg/220px-Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg/330px-Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg/440px-Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2473" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>There are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ~ <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King" class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Luther King">Martin Luther King</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Had those who drew and ratified the Due Process Clauses of the <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Fifth Amendment</a> or the Fourteenth Amendment known the components of <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a> in its manifold possibilities, they might have been more specific. They did not presume to have this insight. They knew <b>times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress.</b> As the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution</a> endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy">Anthony Kennedy</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas" class="extiw" title="w:Lawrence v. Texas">Lawrence v. Texas</a></i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=02-102">539 U.S. 558</a> (26 June 2003).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Disarmament" title="Disarmament">Disarmament</a> without checks is but a shadow--and a community without law is but a shell. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Speeches/Address-Before-the-General-Assembly-of-the-United-Nations-September-25-1961.aspx">Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations</a> (<a href="/wiki/25_September" class="mw-redirect" title="25 September">25 September</a> <a href="/wiki/1961" class="mw-disambig" title="1961">1961</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law. This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny. The law which we obey includes the final rulings of the courts, as well as the enactments of our legislative bodies. Even among law-abiding men few laws are universally loved, but they are uniformly respected and not resisted. Americans are free, in short, to disagree with the law but not to disobey it. For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Speeches/Radio-and-Television-Report-to-the-Nation-on-the-Situation-at-the-University-of-Mississippi.aspx">Radio and Television Report to the Nation on the Situation at the University of Mississippi</a> (<a href="/wiki/30_September" class="mw-redirect" title="30 September">30 September</a> <a href="/wiki/1962" class="mw-disambig" title="1962">1962</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In 1945 a Mississippi sergeant, Jake Lindsey, was honored by an unusual joint session of the Congress. I close therefore, with this appeal to the students of the University, the people who are most concerned. You have a great tradition to uphold, a tradition of honor and courage won on the field of battle and on the gridiron as well as the University campus. You have a new opportunity to show that you are men of patriotism and integrity. For the most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you disagree as well as those with which you agree. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Speeches/Radio-and-Television-Report-to-the-Nation-on-the-Situation-at-the-University-of-Mississippi.aspx">Radio and Television Report to the Nation on the Situation at the University of Mississippi</a> (<a href="/wiki/30_September" class="mw-redirect" title="30 September">30 September</a> <a href="/wiki/1962" class="mw-disambig" title="1962">1962</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/aZ0Im5s0mUqPJlFNs6iO4A.aspx">Remarks in Nashville at the 90th Anniversary Convocation of Vanderbilt University</a> (<a href="/wiki/18_May" class="mw-redirect" title="18 May">18 May</a> <a href="/wiki/1963" class="mw-disambig" title="1963">1963</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He knows that law is the adhesive force in the cement of society, creating order out of chaos and coherence in place of anarchy. He knows that for one man to defy a law or court order he does not like is to invite others to defy those which they do not like, leading to a breakdown of all justice and all order. He knows, too, that every fellowman is entitled to be regarded with decency and treated with dignity. Any educated citizen who seeks to subvert the law, to suppress freedom, or to subject other human beings to acts that are less than human, degrades his heritage, ignores his learning, and betrays his obligation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/aZ0Im5s0mUqPJlFNs6iO4A.aspx">Remarks in Nashville at the 90th Anniversary Convocation of Vanderbilt University</a> (<a href="/wiki/18_May" class="mw-redirect" title="18 May">18 May</a> <a href="/wiki/1963" class="mw-disambig" title="1963">1963</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/aZ0Im5s0mUqPJlFNs6iO4A.aspx">Remarks in Nashville at the 90th Anniversary Convocation of Vanderbilt University</a> (<a href="/wiki/18_May" class="mw-redirect" title="18 May">18 May</a> <a href="/wiki/1963" class="mw-disambig" title="1963">1963</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Education does have a great role to play in this period of transition. But it is not <i>either</i> education <i>or</i> legislation; it is <i>both</i> education and legislation. <b>It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important also.</b> It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless, and this is what we often so and we have to do in society through legislation. We must depend on religion and education to change bad internal attitudes, but we need legislation to control the external effects of those bad internal attitudes. And so there is a need for meaningful civil right legislation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Luther King, Jr.">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.cornellcollege.edu/dr-martin-luther-kings-visit-to-cornell-college/">Address to Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa (15 October 1962)</a>. Also quoted in <i>Wall Street Journal</i> (13 November 1962), <i>Notable & Quotable </i>, p. 18</li> <li>Variant:</li> <li><b>It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important.</b> <ul><li>Address at Finney Chapel, Oberlin College (22 October 1964), as reported in "When MLK came to Oberlin" by Cindy Leise, <i>The Chronicle-Telegram</i> (21 January 2008)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that <b>there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a <a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">moral</a> <a href="/wiki/Responsibility" title="Responsibility">responsibility</a> to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.</b> I would agree with <a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">St. Augustine</a> that "<i>an unjust law is no law at all</i>." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Luther King, Jr.">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Letter_from_a_Birmingham_Jail" class="mw-redirect" title="Letter from a Birmingham Jail">Letter from a Birmingham Jail</a> (1963).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>An individual who breaks a law that <a href="/wiki/Conscience" title="Conscience">conscience</a> tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Luther King, Jr.">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Letter_from_a_Birmingham_Jail" class="mw-redirect" title="Letter from a Birmingham Jail">Letter from a Birmingham Jail</a> (1963).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Knox" title="John Knox">John Knox</a>, as quoted in <i>The Breakers of the Yoke</i> by J. S. MacIntosh pg. 303.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you reason instead of repeating what is taught you; if you analyze the law and strip off those cloudy fictions with which it has been draped in order to conceal its real origin, which is the right of the stronger, and its substance, which has ever been the consecration of all the tyrannies handed down to mankind through its long and bloody history; when you have comprehended this, your contempt for the law will be profound indeed. You will understand that to remain the servant of the written law is to place yourself every day in opposition to the law of conscience, and to make a bargain on the wrong side; and, since this struggle cannot go on forever, you will either silence your conscience and become a scoundrel, or you will break with tradition, and you will work with us for the utter destruction of all this injustice <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin" title="Peter Kropotkin">Peter Kropotkin</a>, "An Appeal to the Young" (1880).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe, the infinite justice of yin and yang, naturally takes care of all motion and compensation. We don't need to invent arbitrary ways to make balance with punishments. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michio_Kushi" title="Michio Kushi">Michio Kushi</a>, with Edward Esko, in <i>Spiritual Journey</i>, p. 57.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abraham_Lincoln_at_Home_1865.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Abraham_Lincoln_at_Home_1865.jpg/220px-Abraham_Lincoln_at_Home_1865.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Abraham_Lincoln_at_Home_1865.jpg/330px-Abraham_Lincoln_at_Home_1865.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Abraham_Lincoln_at_Home_1865.jpg/440px-Abraham_Lincoln_at_Home_1865.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4312" data-file-height="3146" /></a><figcaption>Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty. ~ <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Statue_of_Liberty_in_front_of_setting_sun,_22_December_2002.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Statue_of_Liberty_in_front_of_setting_sun%2C_22_December_2002.jpg/220px-Statue_of_Liberty_in_front_of_setting_sun%2C_22_December_2002.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Statue_of_Liberty_in_front_of_setting_sun%2C_22_December_2002.jpg/330px-Statue_of_Liberty_in_front_of_setting_sun%2C_22_December_2002.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Statue_of_Liberty_in_front_of_setting_sun%2C_22_December_2002.jpg/440px-Statue_of_Liberty_in_front_of_setting_sun%2C_22_December_2002.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a> of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_Locke" title="John Locke">John Locke</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._A._Lafferty" title="R. A. Lafferty">R. A. Lafferty</a>, <i>Space Chantey</i> (1968).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Certain broad facts are always put before men in some form or other. They are explained even to savage tribes by their medicine-men, and to the rest of mankind by various religious teachers and in all kinds of scriptures. It is very true that scriptures and religions differ, but the points in which they all agree have to be accepted by a man before he can understand life sufficiently to live happily. One of these facts is <b>the eternal Law of Cause and Effect</b>. If a man lives under the delusion that he can do anything that he likes, and that the effect of his actions will never recoil upon himself, he will most certainly find that some of these actions eventually involve him in unhappiness and suffering. **<a href="/wiki/C.W._Leadbeater" class="mw-redirect" title="C.W. Leadbeater">C.W. Leadbeater</a>, (Speaking about the <a href="/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths" title="Four Noble Truths">Four Noble Truths</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_Masters_and_the_Path" title="The Masters and the Path"><i>The Masters and the Path</i></a> (1925) p. 306</li></ul> <ul><li><b>[T]o violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty. Let reverence for the laws be breathed... When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, or that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible.. There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Life_and_Works_of_Abraham_Lincoln/Volume_3/The_Perpetuation_of_Our_Political_Institutions" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln/Volume 3/The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions">An Address Delivered Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Ill. January 27, 1837</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a> of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Locke" title="John Locke">John Locke</a>, <i>Second Treatise of Government</i>, Ch. VI, sec. 57.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And folks are beginning to think it looks odd,<br />To choke a poor scamp for the glory of God. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell" title="James Russell Lowell">James Russell Lowell</a>, <i>A Fable for Critics</i> (1848), line 492.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_the_Evangelist" class="extiw" title="w:Luke the Evangelist">Luke</a> 11:52.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law. ... Our stubbornness is right, because we want to preserve the liberty which we have in Christ. Only by preserving our liberty shall we be able to retain the truth of the Gospel inviolate. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Martin Luther</a>, <i>Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians</i> (1535), Chapter 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maimonides_statue_-_Cordoba.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Maimonides_statue_-_Cordoba.jpg/220px-Maimonides_statue_-_Cordoba.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="329" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Maimonides_statue_-_Cordoba.jpg/330px-Maimonides_statue_-_Cordoba.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Maimonides_statue_-_Cordoba.jpg/440px-Maimonides_statue_-_Cordoba.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="3872" /></a><figcaption>Laws must have some bearing upon one of the following three things, viz., the regulation of our opinions, or the improvement of our social relations, which implies two things, the removal of injustice, and the teaching of good morals. ~ <a href="/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides">Maimonides</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maimonides_Moses.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Maimonides_Moses.jpg/220px-Maimonides_Moses.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Maimonides_Moses.jpg/330px-Maimonides_Moses.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Maimonides_Moses.jpg/440px-Maimonides_Moses.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2356" data-file-height="1884" /></a><figcaption>In addition to the <a href="/wiki/Teaching" class="mw-redirect" title="Teaching">teaching</a> of <a href="/wiki/Truths" class="mw-redirect" title="Truths">truths</a> the Law aims at the removal of injustice from mankind. ~ <a href="/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides">Maimonides</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nelson_Mandela,_2000_(5).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Nelson_Mandela%2C_2000_%285%29.jpg/220px-Nelson_Mandela%2C_2000_%285%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Nelson_Mandela%2C_2000_%285%29.jpg/330px-Nelson_Mandela%2C_2000_%285%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Nelson_Mandela%2C_2000_%285%29.jpg/440px-Nelson_Mandela%2C_2000_%285%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="438" /></a><figcaption>Equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed. ~ <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Law_place_du_Palais-Bourbon_Paris.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Law_place_du_Palais-Bourbon_Paris.jpg/220px-Law_place_du_Palais-Bourbon_Paris.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Law_place_du_Palais-Bourbon_Paris.jpg/330px-Law_place_du_Palais-Bourbon_Paris.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Law_place_du_Palais-Bourbon_Paris.jpg/440px-Law_place_du_Palais-Bourbon_Paris.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2300" data-file-height="3484" /></a><figcaption>Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things. ~ <a href="/wiki/Montesquieu" title="Montesquieu">Montesquieu</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Charles_Montesquieu.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Charles_Montesquieu.jpg/220px-Charles_Montesquieu.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Charles_Montesquieu.jpg/330px-Charles_Montesquieu.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Charles_Montesquieu.jpg/440px-Charles_Montesquieu.jpg 2x" data-file-width="752" data-file-height="909" /></a><figcaption>Useless laws weaken the <a href="/wiki/Necessary" class="mw-redirect" title="Necessary">necessary</a> laws. ~ <a href="/wiki/Montesquieu" title="Montesquieu">Montesquieu</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The reason of a commandment, whether positive or negative, is clear, and its usefulness evident, if it directly tends to remove injustice, or to teach good conduct that furthers the well-being of society, or to impart a truth which ought to be believed either on its own merit or as being indispensable for facilitating the removal of injustice or the teaching of good morals. There is no occasion to ask for the object of such commandments; for no one can, <i>e.g.</i>, be in doubt as to the reason why we have been commanded to believe that God is one; why we are forbidden to murder, steal, and to take vengeance, or to retaliate, or why we are commanded to love one another. But there are precepts concerning which people are in doubt, and of divided opinions, some believing they are mere commands, and serve no purpose whatever, whilst others believe that they serve a certain purpose, which, however is unknown to man. Such are those precepts which in their literal meaning do not seem to further any of the three above-named results: to impart some truth, to teach some moral, or to remove injustice. They do not seem to have any influence upon the well-being of the soul by imparting any truth, or upon the well-being of the body by suggesting such ways and rules as are useful in the government of a state, or in the management of a household. ... I will show that all these and similar laws must have some bearing upon one of the following three things, viz., the regulation of our opinions, or the improvement of our social relations, which implies two things, the removal of injustice, and the teaching of good morals. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides">Maimonides</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_for_the_Perplexed" class="extiw" title="w:Guide for the Perplexed">Guide for the Perplexed</a></i> (<i>c.</i> 1190), Ch.28.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The chief object of the Law, as has been shown by us, is the teaching of truths; to which the truth of the <i>creatio ex nihilo</i> belongs. It is known that the object of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Sabbath" class="extiw" title="w:Biblical Sabbath">law of Sabbath</a> is to confirm and to establish this principle, as we have shown in this treatise (Part II. chap. xxxi.) In addition to the teaching of truths the Law aims at the removal of injustice from mankind. We have thus proved that the first laws do not refer to burnt-offering and sacrifice, which are of secondary importance. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides">Maimonides</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_for_the_Perplexed" class="extiw" title="w:Guide for the Perplexed">Guide for the Perplexed</a></i> (<i>c.</i> 1190), Ch.32.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The wiser nations are, the more public spirit they possess, the more perfect their political constitution, the fewer constitutional laws they have, for these laws are only props, and a building only needs props when it has become out of plumb or when it has been violently shaken by an external force. The most perfect constitution of antiquity was without contradiction that of Sparta, and Sparta has not left us a single line of its public law. It justly boasted of having written its laws only in the hearts of its children. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre" title="Joseph de Maistre">Joseph de Maistre</a>, <i>Against Rousseau</i> (1795), p. 84</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys-general, law advisers and similar positions.</li></ul> <dl><dd>In the absence of these safeguards the phrase 'equality before the law', in so far as it is intended to apply to us, is meaningless and misleading.<b> All the rights and privileges to which I have referred are monopolised by whites, and we enjoy none of them. The white man makes all the laws, he drags us before his courts and accuses us, and he sits in judgement over us.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a>, Court statement responding to charges of inciting persons to strike illegally, and of leaving the country without a valid passport (1962), in <i>Law and Morality: Readings in Legal Philosophy</i>, p. 564</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Leges bello siluere coactae.</i> <ul><li>But silenced now are laws in war.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Annaeus_Lucanus" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Annaeus Lucanus">Marcus Annaeus Lucanus</a>, <i>Pharsalia</i>, Book I, line 277.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Macklin" title="Charles Macklin">Charles Macklin</a>, <i>Love à la Mode</i> (1759), Act ii, scene 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A <a href="/wiki/Trial" class="mw-redirect" title="Trial">trial</a> transcript is a discourse in malevolence. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Malcolm" class="extiw" title="w:Janet Malcolm">Janet Malcolm</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journalist_and_the_Murderer" class="extiw" title="w:The Journalist and the Murderer">The Journalist and the Murderer</a></i>. New York: Knopf, 1990, p. 63.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In life, it is hard enough to see another person's view of things; in a lawsuit, it is impossible. The fatal attraction of a lawsuit—as <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Dickens</a> showed us in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House" class="extiw" title="w:Bleak House">Bleak House</a></i>, with the case of <i>Jarndyce v. Jarndyce</i>—is the infinite scope it offers for escape from the real world of ambiguity, obscurity, doubt, disappointment, compromise, and accommodation. The world of the lawsuit is the world of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Forms" class="extiw" title="w:Theory of Forms">Platonic ideal</a>, where all is clear, etched, one thing or the other. It is a world—as Dickens showed with his allegory of obsession—that we enter at our peril, since it is also the world of madness. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Malcolm" class="extiw" title="w:Janet Malcolm">Janet Malcolm</a>, <i>The Journalist and the Murderer</i>. New York: Knopf, 1990, pp. 148–9.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Law, morality, religion, are to him so many <a href="/wiki/Bourgeois" class="mw-redirect" title="Bourgeois">bourgeois</a> prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a>, <i>The Manifesto of the Communist Party</i> (1848), Section 1, paragraph 47, lines 7-9.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Increase_Mather" title="Increase Mather">Increase Mather</a>, <i>Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men, Witchcrafts, infallible Proofs of Guilt in such as are accused with that Crime</i> (1692); a variant of this has become known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation" class="extiw" title="w:Blackstone's formulation"> Blackstone's formulation</a>, through its expression by <a href="/wiki/William_Blackstone" title="William Blackstone">William Blackstone</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Laws_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:Commentaries on the Laws of England"> Commentaries on the Laws of England</a></i> (1765 - 1769).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Power over the rules is real power. That's why lobbyists congregate when Congress writes laws, and why the Supreme Court, which interprets and delineates the Constitution – the rules for writing the rules – has even more power than Congress. <b>If you want to understand the deepest malfunctions of systems, pay attention to the rules and to who has power over them.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donella_Meadows" title="Donella Meadows">Donella Meadows</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Donella_Meadows#Thinking_in_Systems:_A_Primer_(2008)" title="Donella Meadows">Thinking in Systems: A Primer</a></i>, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008, pages 158 (<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781603580557" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 9781603580557</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_McCabe" title="Joseph McCabe">Joseph McCabe</a>, <i>The Existence of God</i> (1913).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a national philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital <a href="/wiki/Crime" title="Crime">crime</a> against society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._L._Mencken" title="H. L. Mencken">H. L. Mencken</a>, <i>A Little Book of Aphorisms</i> (New York: 1947), p. 75.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Laws without supporting moral conventions invite crime, but much more importantly, they spur the growth of an expedient, amoral attitude. In our kind of society - with its absence of pre-capitalist traditions - the only way to do away with training devices is to change the laws and their enforcement so that, unlike the current income tax, they do not depend upon individual integrity.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C._Wright_Mills" title="C. Wright Mills">C. Wright Mills</a>, <i>Power, Politics, and People</i>, "A Diagnosis of Our Moral Uneasiness."</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Useless laws weaken the <a href="/wiki/Necessary" class="mw-redirect" title="Necessary">necessary</a> laws.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Montesquieu" title="Montesquieu">Montesquieu</a>, <i>The Spirit of the Laws</i> (1748), Book XXIX: Of the Manner of Composing Laws, Chapter 16: Things to be Observed in the Composing of Laws</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Montesquieu" title="Montesquieu">Montesquieu</a>, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895), p. 375.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Huey_Newton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Huey_Newton.jpg/220px-Huey_Newton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Huey_Newton.jpg/330px-Huey_Newton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Huey_Newton.jpg/440px-Huey_Newton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="456" data-file-height="461" /></a><figcaption>Rewriting unjust laws is a basic human right and fundamental obligation. ~ <a href="/wiki/Huey_Newton" class="mw-redirect" title="Huey Newton">Huey Newton</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The black person ... is asked to respect laws that do not respect him. He is asked to digest a code of ethics that acts upon him but not for him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Huey_Newton" class="mw-redirect" title="Huey Newton">Huey Newton</a>, "Fear and Doubt," May 15, 1967, in <i>The Huey P. Newton Reader</i> (2002), p. 132</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Men were not created in order to obey laws. Laws are created to obey men.</b> They are established by men and should serve men. The laws and rules which officials inflict upon poor people prevent them from functioning harmoniously in society. There is no disagreements about this function of law in any circle-the disagreement arises from the question of which men laws are to serve. Such lawmakers ignore the fact that it is the duty of the poor and unrepresented to construct rules and laws that serve their interest better. <b>Rewriting unjust laws is a basic human right and fundamental obligation.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Huey_Newton" class="mw-redirect" title="Huey Newton">Huey Newton</a>, "In Defense of Self-defense" (June 20, 1967)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Jesus said to his Jews: “The law was for slaves—love god as I love him, as his son! What do we sons of God have to do with morality!” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>, <i>Beyond Good and Evil</i>, I. Johnston, trans., § 164.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A law-book never recites the utility, the grounds, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casuistry" class="extiw" title="w:Casuistry">casuistical</a> antecedents of a law: for if it did so it would lose the imperative tone, the “thou shall,” on which <a href="/wiki/Obedience" title="Obedience">obedience</a> is based. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>, <i>The Antichrist</i>, § 57 (Mencken trans.).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> wanted to <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberate</a> everyone from the law — from all laws. But this could not be achieved by abolishing or changing the law. He had to dethrone the law. He had to ensure that the law be man’s servant and not his master (<a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark" title="Gospel of Mark">Mark</a> 2:27-28). Man must therefore take <a href="/wiki/Responsibility" title="Responsibility">responsibility</a> for his servant, the law, and use it to serve the needs of mankind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Nolan" title="Albert Nolan">Albert Nolan</a>, <i>Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation</i> (1976), p. 72.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Authority_of_Law_SCOTUS.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Authority_of_Law_SCOTUS.JPG/220px-Authority_of_Law_SCOTUS.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Authority_of_Law_SCOTUS.JPG/330px-Authority_of_Law_SCOTUS.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Authority_of_Law_SCOTUS.JPG/440px-Authority_of_Law_SCOTUS.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2077" data-file-height="2769" /></a><figcaption>Liberty cannot depend on the good intentions of those in power; it depends on the law to constrain those in power. ~ <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>There was a recognition by all who participated in these reviews that the challenges to our privacy do not come from government alone. Corporations of all shapes and sizes track what you buy, store and analyze our data, and use it for commercial purposes; that’s how those targeted ads pop up on your computer and your smartphone periodically. But all of us understand that the standards for government surveillance must be higher. Given the unique power of the state, it is not enough for leaders to say: Trust us, we won’t abuse the data we collect. For history has too many examples when that trust has been breached. Our system of government is built on the premise that our liberty cannot depend on the good intentions of those in power; it depends on the law to constrain those in power. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/17/remarks-president-review-signals-intelligence">Remarks by the President on Review of Signals Intelligence (17 June 2014) at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., USA.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, "Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift#Gulliver.27s_Travels_.281726.29" title="Jonathan Swift">Gulliver's Travels</a>," <i>Polemic</i> (September/October 1946) - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/swift/english/e_swift">Full text online</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>How can law be just? — impossible. It is against the people who have nothing, it is for the people who have everything. It is always in favor of the haves - it is <i>made</i> by the haves, it is a conspiracy of the haves against the have-nots. In all societies it has been so, the law is always unjust. Your so-called justice is just a pretension. The world where ownership exists cannot be a just world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Osho" class="mw-redirect" title="Osho">Osho</a>, <i>Zen: The Path of Paradox</i>, Vol. 2, Ch. 7</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Statue_of_Saint_Paul,_Damascus.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Statue_of_Saint_Paul%2C_Damascus.jpg/220px-Statue_of_Saint_Paul%2C_Damascus.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="265" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Statue_of_Saint_Paul%2C_Damascus.jpg/330px-Statue_of_Saint_Paul%2C_Damascus.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Statue_of_Saint_Paul%2C_Damascus.jpg/440px-Statue_of_Saint_Paul%2C_Damascus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1937" data-file-height="2334" /></a><figcaption>Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. ~ <a href="/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul the Apostle">Paul the Apostle</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paris_-_Assembl%C3%A9e_Nationale_-_001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Paris_-_Assembl%C3%A9e_Nationale_-_001.jpg/220px-Paris_-_Assembl%C3%A9e_Nationale_-_001.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Paris_-_Assembl%C3%A9e_Nationale_-_001.jpg/330px-Paris_-_Assembl%C3%A9e_Nationale_-_001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Paris_-_Assembl%C3%A9e_Nationale_-_001.jpg/440px-Paris_-_Assembl%C3%A9e_Nationale_-_001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4752" data-file-height="3168" /></a><figcaption>Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state,<br />Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. ~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Love_heart.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Love_heart.jpg/220px-Love_heart.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Love_heart.jpg/330px-Love_heart.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Love_heart.jpg/440px-Love_heart.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1261" /></a><figcaption>Curse on all laws but those which <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> has made. ~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg/220px-Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg/330px-Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg/440px-Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Where <i>there is</i> no vision, the <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> perish: but he that keepeth the law, <a href="/wiki/Happy" class="mw-redirect" title="Happy">happy</a> <i>is</i> he. ~ <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Proverbs" class="extiw" title="w:Book of Proverbs">Proverbs</a> </i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I died to the law so that I might live for <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Galatians" class="extiw" title="w:Epistle to the Galatians">Galatians</a>, 2:19.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Galatians" class="extiw" title="w:Epistle to the Galatians">Galatians</a>, 3:24-26.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> thy neighbor as thyself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Galatians" class="extiw" title="w:Epistle to the Galatians">Galatians</a>, 5:14.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>On the other hand, the fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/galatians/5/">Letter to the Galatians 5:22-23</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_World_Translation" class="mw-redirect" title="New World Translation">New World Translation</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Romans" title="Epistle to the Romans">Romans</a> 13:8-10.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are made right with <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> through <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> and not by obeying the law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Romans" class="extiw" title="w:Epistle to the Romans">Letter to the Romans</a> 3:28.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Romans" class="extiw" title="w:Epistle to the Romans">Letter to the Romans</a> 13:8.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To those outside the law I became as one outside the law—not being without law toward God but under the law of Christ—that I might win those outside the law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_to_the_Corinthians" class="extiw" title="w:First Epistle to the Corinthians">First Letter to the Corinthians</a> 9:19-23.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is as if a man were acquiring the knowledge of the humors and desires of a great strong beast which he had in his keeping, how it is to be approached and touched, and when and by what things it is made most savage or gentle, yes, and the several sounds it is wont to utter on the occasion of each, and again what sounds uttered by another make it tame or fierce, and after mastering this knowledge by living with the creature and by lapse of time should call it wisdom, and should construct thereof a system and art and turn to the teaching of it, knowing nothing in reality about which of these opinions and desires is honorable or base, good or evil, just or unjust, but should apply all these terms to the judgments of the great beast, calling the things that pleased it good, and the things that vexed it bad, having no other account to render of them, but should call what is necessary just and honorable, never having observed how great is the real difference between the necessary and the good, and being incapable of explaining it to another. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>, <i>Republic</i>, 493a.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Curse on all laws but those which love has made. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <i>Eloisa to Abelard</i> (1717), line 74.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state,<br />Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <i>An Essay on Man</i> (1733-34), Epistle III, line 189.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Where <i>there is</i> no vision, the <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> perish: but he that keepeth the law, <a href="/wiki/Happy" class="mw-redirect" title="Happy">happy</a> <i>is</i> he.</b> <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Proverbs" class="extiw" title="w:Book of Proverbs">Book of Proverbs</a></i>, 29:18 (KJV)</li> <li>Variant translation: <b>Without a vision, the people perish.</b></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon" title="Pierre-Joseph Proudhon">Pierre-Joseph Proudhon</a>, in "The Authority Principle" in <i>No Gods, No Masters : An Anthology of Anarchism</i> (1980) Daniel Guérin, as translated by Paul Sharkey (1998), p. 90.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Law is not a mausoleum. It is not an antique to be taken down, dusted, admired and put back on the shelf. It is like an old but vigorous tree, having roots in history, yet continuously taking new grafts and putting out new sprouts and occasionally dropping dead wood. It is essentially a social process, the end product of which is justice and hence it must change with changing social values. Otherwise there will be estrangement between law and justice and law will cease to have legitimacy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P.N._Bhagwati" title="P.N. Bhagwati">P.N. Bhagwati</a> Motilal Padmapat v State of Uttar Pradesh AIR 1979 SC 621; 118 ITR 326.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Aurum lex sequitur</i>. <ul><li>Law follows gold.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Propertius" title="Propertius">Propertius</a>, <i>Elegice</i>, III. 13. 48.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eleanor_Roosevelt_UDHR.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Eleanor_Roosevelt_UDHR.jpg/220px-Eleanor_Roosevelt_UDHR.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Eleanor_Roosevelt_UDHR.jpg/330px-Eleanor_Roosevelt_UDHR.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Eleanor_Roosevelt_UDHR.jpg/440px-Eleanor_Roosevelt_UDHR.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5912" data-file-height="4640" /></a><figcaption>Laws are only observed with the consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law. ~ <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt" title="Eleanor Roosevelt">Eleanor Roosevelt</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_Theodore_Roosevelt,_1904.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/President_Theodore_Roosevelt%2C_1904.jpg/220px-President_Theodore_Roosevelt%2C_1904.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/President_Theodore_Roosevelt%2C_1904.jpg/330px-President_Theodore_Roosevelt%2C_1904.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/President_Theodore_Roosevelt%2C_1904.jpg/440px-President_Theodore_Roosevelt%2C_1904.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2842" data-file-height="3751" /></a><figcaption>The first essential of civilization is law. Anarchy is simply the handmaiden and forerunner of tyranny and despotism. ~ <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>, Speech at the Republican National Convention, Platform Committee Meeting, Miami, Florida" (31 July 1968).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> forgot to say, "To live outside the law, you must be lucky." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spider_Robinson" title="Spider Robinson">Spider Robinson</a>, <i>Callahan's Key</i> (2000).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Laws are only observed with the consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt" title="Eleanor Roosevelt">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, <i>My Day</i> (1935–1962) (14 July 1939).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The first essential of civilization is law. Anarchy is simply the handmaiden and forerunner of tyranny and despotism. Law and order enforced with justice and by strength lie at the foundations of civilization. Law must be based upon justice, else it cannot stand, and it must be enforced with resolute firmness, because weakness in enforcing it means in the end that there is no justice and no law, nothing but the rule of disorderly and unscrupulous strength. Without the habit of orderly obedience to the law, without the stern enforcement of the laws at the expense of those who defiantly resist them, there can be no possible progress, moral or material, in civilization. There can be no weakening of the law-abiding spirit here at home, if we are permanently to succeed; and just as little can we afford to show weakness abroad.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses, Chapter <i>National Duties</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jonesmansion.com/history/speechon.htm">Address at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, 2 September 1901</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For my part, I never knew a social evil to be removed by force of law...The prevention of that social evil must commence in the nursery. If you will bring up woman as you ought to bring up men—not as you do bring up men—acknowledging her right to live the same as men, giving her the same advantages and the same rights that men have, there will be no need to enact laws against a "social evil…I say to the Legislature that, if you enact laws against social evils, whatever those laws are, let them be alike for man and for woman. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ernestine_Rose" title="Ernestine Rose">Ernestine Rose</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/21/address-to-the-first-anniversary-of-the-american-equal-rights-association-may-9-1867-2/">Address</a> to the First Anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association (May 9, 1867)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Every law the people has not ratified in person is null and void - is, in fact, not a law. </b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a>, <i>The Social Contract</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The inflexibility of the laws, which prevents them from adapting themselves to circumstances, may, in certain cases, render them disastrous, and make them bring about, at a time of crisis, the ruin of the State. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a>, <i>The Social Contract</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We must base our laws on <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a>, not <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a>. <ul><li>Mark Rushdoony, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2005/winter/casting-stones">"Casting Stones"</a> (2005), <i>Intelligence Report</i>, Southern Poverty Law Center</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JUL_Iris_Soul_Palm.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/JUL_Iris_Soul_Palm.png/220px-JUL_Iris_Soul_Palm.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="353" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/JUL_Iris_Soul_Palm.png/330px-JUL_Iris_Soul_Palm.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/JUL_Iris_Soul_Palm.png/440px-JUL_Iris_Soul_Palm.png 2x" data-file-width="749" data-file-height="1202" /></a><figcaption>Some laws are not written, but are more decisive than any written law. ~ <a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Elder" title="Seneca the Elder">Seneca the Elder</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%27Foundling_Mick%27_by_L%C3%A9on_Benett_31.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/%27Foundling_Mick%27_by_L%C3%A9on_Benett_31.jpg/220px-%27Foundling_Mick%27_by_L%C3%A9on_Benett_31.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="332" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/%27Foundling_Mick%27_by_L%C3%A9on_Benett_31.jpg/330px-%27Foundling_Mick%27_by_L%C3%A9on_Benett_31.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/%27Foundling_Mick%27_by_L%C3%A9on_Benett_31.jpg/440px-%27Foundling_Mick%27_by_L%C3%A9on_Benett_31.jpg 2x" data-file-width="497" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption>'Twill be recorded for a precedent;<br />And many an error by the same example<br />Will rush into the state. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Liberty_Enlightening_the_World,_Paris_19_October_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Liberty_Enlightening_the_World%2C_Paris_19_October_2011.jpg/220px-Liberty_Enlightening_the_World%2C_Paris_19_October_2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Liberty_Enlightening_the_World%2C_Paris_19_October_2011.jpg/330px-Liberty_Enlightening_the_World%2C_Paris_19_October_2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Liberty_Enlightening_the_World%2C_Paris_19_October_2011.jpg/440px-Liberty_Enlightening_the_World%2C_Paris_19_October_2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="3888" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws">Laws</a> are never as effective as <a href="/wiki/Habits" class="mw-redirect" title="Habits">habits</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II" title="Adlai Stevenson II">Adlai Stevenson II</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Algernon_Sidney_(1623-1683)_9.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Algernon_Sidney_%281623-1683%29_9.jpg/220px-Algernon_Sidney_%281623-1683%29_9.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="351" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Algernon_Sidney_%281623-1683%29_9.jpg/330px-Algernon_Sidney_%281623-1683%29_9.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Algernon_Sidney_%281623-1683%29_9.jpg/440px-Algernon_Sidney_%281623-1683%29_9.jpg 2x" data-file-width="489" data-file-height="780" /></a><figcaption>That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed. ~ <a href="/wiki/Algernon_Sydney" class="mw-redirect" title="Algernon Sydney">Algernon Sydney</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a>. Laws such as the law of <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">karma</a>, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Salzberg" class="extiw" title="w:Sharon Salzberg">Sharon Salzberg</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://consciousresonance.net/?p=2441">Buddhism: Between Desire and Emptiness</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schlegel" title="Friedrich Schlegel">Friedrich Schlegel</a>, <i>Lucinde and the Fragments</i>, p. Firchow, trans. (1991), “Athenaeum Fragments” § 211.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The writers of our belief system caution us to make sure that the laws are <a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">just</a> — that is, that they are not subverted by those in <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> for their own interest and permitted to become the means by which the powerful justify their rule and become masters of the many. In such conditions the laws become <a href="/wiki/Idols" class="mw-redirect" title="Idols">idols</a>, and we end up <a href="/wiki/Worshipping" class="mw-redirect" title="Worshipping">worshipping</a> false <a href="/wiki/Gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Gods">gods</a>. <ul><li>Eugen Schoenfeld, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/worship-guns-worship-idols/">"Worship of Guns is Worship of Idols"</a>, <i>Atlanta Jewish Times</i>, (July 20, 2016).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Necessity creates the law, — it supersedes rules; and whatever is reasonable and just in such cases is likewise legal. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Scott,_1st_Baron_Stowell" title="William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell">William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell</a>, <i>The Gratitude</i> (1801), 3 Rob. Adm. Rep. 240. Note that "<i>The Gratitude</i>" is the name of a legal case in admiralty, such cases being styled by the name of the vessel at issue.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the first place, it is not improper to observe, that the law of cases of necessity is not likely to be well furnished with precise rules; necessity creates the law, it supersedes rules; and whatever is <i>reasonable</i> and <i>just</i> in such cases, is likewise <i>legal</i>; it is not to be considered as matter of surprise, therefore, if much instituted rule is not to be found on such subjects. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Scott,_1st_Baron_Stowell" title="William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell">William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell</a>, <i>The Gratitudine</i> (18 December 1801); as published in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-vcvAAAAYAAJ"><i>Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty, Commencing with the Judgments of the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Michaelmas Term, 1798</i>, Vol. III (1802)</a>, p. 266.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Quædam iura non scripta, sed omnibus scriptis certiora sunt.</i> <ul><li>Some laws are not written, but are more decisive than any written law.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Elder" title="Seneca the Elder">Seneca the Elder</a>, <i>Controversiae</i>, Book 1, Chapter 1, sect. 14; translation from Norman T. Pratt <i>Seneca's Drama</i> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983) p. 140.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You who wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller; and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a second day of audience. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Coriolanus" title="Coriolanus">Coriolanus</a></i> (c. 1607-08), Act II, scene 1, line 77.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He hath resisted law,<br />And therefore law shall scorn him further trial<br />Than the severity of the public power. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Coriolanus" title="Coriolanus">Coriolanus</a></i> (c. 1607-08), Act III, scene 1, line 267.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the corrupted currents of this world,<br />Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice;<br />And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself<br />Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above;<br />There is no shuffling, there the action lies<br />In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd,<br />Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,<br />To give in evidence. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> (1600-02), Act III, scene 3, line 57.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But is this law?<br />Ay, marry is 't; crowner's quest law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> (1600-02), Act V, scene 1, line 23.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But, I prithee, sweet wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king? and resolution thus fobbed as it is with the rusty curb of old father antic the law? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_1" title="Henry IV, Part 1"><i>Henry IV</i>, Part I</a> (c. 1597), Act I, scene 2, line 65.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Faith, I have been a truant in the law,<br />And never yet could frame my will to it;<br />And therefore frame the law unto my will. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_1" title="Henry VI, Part 1"><i>Henry VI</i>, Part I</a> (c. 1588-90), Act II, scene 4, line 7.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,<br />Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_1" title="Henry VI, Part 1"><i>Henry VI</i>, Part I</a> (c. 1588-90), Act II, scene 4, line 11.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_2" title="Henry VI, Part 2"><i>Henry VI</i>, Part II</a> (c. 1590-91), Act IV, scene 2, line 84.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Press not a falling man too far! 'tis virtue:<br />His faults lie open to the laws; let them,<br />Not you, correct him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_(play)" title="Henry VIII (play)">Henry VIII</a></i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_(play)#Date" class="extiw" title="w:Henry VIII (play)">c. 1613</a>), Act III, scene 2, line 333.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When law can do no right,<br />Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/King_John" title="King John">King John</a></i> (1598), Act III, scene 1, line 185.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>'Tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer; you gave me nothing for 't. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i> (1608), Act I, scene 4, line 142.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Bold of your worthiness, we single you<br />As our best-moving fair solicitor. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost" title="Love's Labour's Lost">Love's Labour's Lost</a></i> (c. 1595-6), Act II, scene 1, line 28.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We have strict statutes and most biting laws. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Measure_for_Measure" title="Measure for Measure">Measure for Measure</a></i> (1603), Act I, scene 3, line 19.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We must not make a scarecrow of the law,<br />Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,<br />And let it keep one shape, till custom make it<br />Their perch and not their terror. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Measure_for_Measure" title="Measure for Measure">Measure for Measure</a></i> (1603), Act II, scene 1, line 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To offend, and judge, are distinct offices<br />And of opposed natures. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice" title="The Merchant of Venice">The Merchant of Venice</a></i> (late 1590s), Act II, scene 9, line 61.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt<br />But, being season'd with a gracious voice,<br />Obscures the show of evil? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice" title="The Merchant of Venice">The Merchant of Venice</a></i> (late 1590s), Act III, scene 2, line 75.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It must not be; there is no power in Venice<br />Can alter a decree established:<br />'Twill be recorded for a precedent;<br />And many an error by the same example<br />Will rush into the state. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice" title="The Merchant of Venice">The Merchant of Venice</a></i> (late 1590s), Act IV, scene 1, line 218.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The bloody book of law<br />You shall yourself read in the bitter letter<br />After your own sense. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a></i> (c. 1603), Act I, scene 3, line 67.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am a subject,<br />And I challenge law: attorneys are denied me;<br />And therefore personally I lay my claim<br />To my inheritance of free descent. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_II_(play)" title="Richard II (play)">Richard II</a></i> (c. 1595), Act II, scene 3, line 133.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Before I be convict by course of law,<br />To threaten me with death is most unlawful. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i> (c. 1591), Act I, scene 4, line 192.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Do as adversaries do in law,<br />Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Taming_of_the_Shrew" title="The Taming of the Shrew">The Taming of the Shrew</a></i> (c. 1593-94), Act I, scene 2, line 278.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are for law; he dies. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Timon_of_Athens" title="Timon of Athens">Timon of Athens</a></i> (date uncertain, published 1623), Act III, scene 5, line 86.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i> (c. 1601-02), Act III, scene 2, line 16.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Still you keep o' the windy side of the law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i> (c. 1601-02), Act III, scene 4, line 181.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable <a href="/wiki/Fools" title="Fools">fool</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Smith" title="Sydney Smith">Sydney Smith</a>, <i>Peter Plymley's Letters</i> (1808), Letter IV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Law is the rule, principle, obligation or requirement of natural justice. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner" class="extiw" title="w:Lysander Spooner">Lysander Spooner</a>, <i>The Unconstitutionality of Slavery</i> (1860).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Laws are never as effective as habits. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II" title="Adlai Stevenson II">Adlai Stevenson II</a>, Speech in New York City (28 August 1952)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>There is no <a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">justice</a> in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a> and, in the grand tradition of <a href="/wiki/Civil_disobedience" title="Civil disobedience">civil disobedience</a>, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Swartz" title="Aaron Swartz">Aaron Swartz</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.org/details/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto"><i>Guerilla Open Access Manifesto</i> (July 2008)</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator: that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by those whose interest and abilities lies in perverting, confounding, and eluding them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a>, the King of Brobdingnag in <i>Gulliver’s Travels</i> (1726), Part 2, chapter 6, p. 135.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Who ever knew an honest brute<br />at law his neighbor prosecute? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a>, <i>The Logicians Refuted</i> (1735).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Algernon_Sydney" class="mw-redirect" title="Algernon Sydney">Algernon Sydney</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.constitution.org/as/dcg_000.htm"><i>Discourses Concerning Government</i> (1698)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.constitution.org/as/dcg_311.htm">Ch. 3, Sect. 11</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Necessity knows no law except to conquer. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Publilius_Syrus" title="Publilius Syrus">Publilius Syrus</a>, <i>Moral Sayings</i> 553.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tacitus,_Annals,_Florence,_Plut._68,2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Tacitus%2C_Annals%2C_Florence%2C_Plut._68%2C2.jpg/220px-Tacitus%2C_Annals%2C_Florence%2C_Plut._68%2C2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Tacitus%2C_Annals%2C_Florence%2C_Plut._68%2C2.jpg/330px-Tacitus%2C_Annals%2C_Florence%2C_Plut._68%2C2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Tacitus%2C_Annals%2C_Florence%2C_Plut._68%2C2.jpg/440px-Tacitus%2C_Annals%2C_Florence%2C_Plut._68%2C2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1408" data-file-height="1747" /></a><figcaption>The more corrupt the state, the more laws. ~ <a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><i>Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.</i> <ul><li><b>The more numerous the <a href="/wiki/Laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws">laws</a>, the more <a href="/wiki/Corrupt" class="mw-redirect" title="Corrupt">corrupt</a> the <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a>, <i>Annales</i> (AD 117), Book III, 27</li></ul></li> <li>Variant translations:</li> <li><b>The more corrupt the state, the more laws.</b></li> <li>And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and <b>laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.</b></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.</i> <ul><li>In all things there is a kind of law of cycles.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a>, <i>Annales</i> (AD 117), III. 55.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Initia magistratum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.</i> <ul><li>Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a>, <i>Annales</i> (AD 117), XV. 31.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" title="William Howard Taft">William Howard Taft</a>, informal address to the judicial section of the American Bar Association, Cincinnati, Ohio (August 30, 1921); reported in "Adequate Machinery for Judicial Business", <i>American Bar Association Journal</i> (September 1921), p. 453.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What is <a href="/wiki/Hateful" class="mw-redirect" title="Hateful">hateful</a> to thee, do not unto thy fellow; this is the whole law. All the rest is a commentary to this law; go and <a href="/wiki/Learn" class="mw-redirect" title="Learn">learn</a> it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmud</a>, Tractate Shabat 30a.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>But speaking of rules, you've been arrested dozens of times in your life. Specific incidents aside, what's common to these run-ins? Where do you stand vis-à-vis the law?</i><br />"Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I don't. How I stand vis-à-vis the law at any given moment depends on the law. The law can change from state to state, from nation to nation, from city to city. I guess I have to go by a higher law. How's that? Yeah, I consider myself a road man for the lords of <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">karma</a>." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson" title="Hunter S. Thompson">Hunter S. Thompson</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/02/03/thompson/index_np.html"><i>Salon</i> interview (3 February 2003)</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law will never make men <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">free</a>; it is men who have got to make the law free. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau" title="Henry David Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a>, om <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thoreau.eserver.org/slavery.html"><i>Slavery in Massachusetts</i> (4 July 1854)</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Illegality is not to be presumed; it is to be alleged and proved when it does not appear on the face of the instrument itself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Conyngham_Tindal" title="Nicholas Conyngham Tindal">Nicholas Conyngham Tindal</a>, CJ., <i>Lord Howden v. Simpson</i> (1839), 10 A. & E. 821; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, <i>Dictionary of Legal Quotations</i> (1904), p. 103-104.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No man e'er felt the halter draw,<br />With good opinion of the law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Trumbull_(poet)" title="John Trumbull (poet)">John Trumbull</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McFingal" class="extiw" title="w:McFingal">McFingal</a></i>, Canto iii (1782), line 489.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Law is the agent of those in political power; it is the product of those powerful enough to define <a href="/wiki/Right_and_wrong" title="Right and wrong">right and wrong</a> and to have that definition legitimized by “law.” This is not to say that “might makes right,” but it is to say that Might makes Law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kwame_Ture" class="mw-redirect" title="Kwame Ture">Kwame Ture</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_V._Hamilton" title="Charles V. Hamilton">Charles V. Hamilton</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power:_The_Politics_of_Liberation_in_America" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America">Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America</a></i>. Vintage Books. 1967. p. 95. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-394-70033-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-394-70033-5">ISBN 978-0-394-70033-5</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5B%3Awikipedia%3ABlack+Power%3A+The+Politics+of+Liberation+in+America%7CBlack+Power%3A+The+Politics+of+Liberation+in+America%5D%5D&rft.date=1967&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B95&rft.pub=Vintage+Books&rft.isbn=978-0-394-70033-5&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Law"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U">U</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: U"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Whereas Congress recognizes the historical tradition of ethical values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and upon which our great Nation was founded; Whereas these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven Noahide Laws ... <ul><li>United States Congress, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c102:h.j.res.104.enr:">Joint Resolution To designate March 26, 1991, as 'Education Day, U.S.A.'</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="V">V</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: V"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LucDeClapiers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/LucDeClapiers.jpg/220px-LucDeClapiers.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="390" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/LucDeClapiers.jpg/330px-LucDeClapiers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/LucDeClapiers.jpg/440px-LucDeClapiers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1840" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>Those who fear men like laws. ~ <a href="/wiki/Luc_de_Clapiers,_Marquis_de_Vauvenargues" title="Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues">Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Those who fear men like laws.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Luc_de_Clapiers,_Marquis_de_Vauvenargues" title="Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues">Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues</a>, <i>Réflexions</i> (1746).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Warren" title="Earl Warren">Earl Warren</a>, Speech at the Louis Marshall Award Dinner of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Americana Hotel, New York City (11 November 1962).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In law there are “<a href="/wiki/Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic">magic</a> <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a>.” If one of them applies to what you are challenging, you have a good chance of getting it overturned. Linda and I used all the magic words that might possibly apply: The statutes were “vague” and uncertain on their face; they were “unconstitutionally broad” on their face in that they infringed upon plaintiff’s “right to safe and adequate medical advice” about the decision of whether to carry a pregnancy to term, upon the “fundamental” right of all women to choose whether to bear children, and upon plaintiff’s “right to privacy” in the physician-patient relationship; on their face they infringed upon plaintiff’s “right to life” in violation of the due-process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; on their face they violated the “First Amendment” prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion; and on their face they denied plaintiffs the “equal protection of the laws.” <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Weddington" class="extiw" title="w:Sarah Weddington">Sarah Weddington</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780140177985/page/50/mode/2up">“A Question of Choice”</a>, New York: Penguin Books, 1993, p.54</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is <a href="/wiki/Divine_law" title="Divine law">divine</a>. Far from being rivals or enemies religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistance. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Wilson" title="James Wilson">James Wilson</a>, <i>The Works of the Honourable James Wilson</i> (Philadelphia: Bronson and Chauncey, 1804), Vol. I, pp. 106 & 103-105.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>American industry is not free, as once it was free; American enterprise is not free; the man with only a little capital is finding it harder to get into the field, more and more impossible to compete with the big fellow. Why? Because the laws of this country do not prevent the strong from crushing the weak. That is the reason, and because the strong have crushed the weak the strong dominate the industry and the economic life of this country. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a>, <i>The New Freedom: A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People</i> (1913).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="X">X</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: X"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Raffael_069.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Raffael_069.jpg/220px-Raffael_069.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="270" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Raffael_069.jpg/330px-Raffael_069.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Raffael_069.jpg/440px-Raffael_069.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1228" /></a><figcaption>Everything, I think, that men constrain others to do without persuasion, whether by enactment or not, is not law, but force. ~ <a href="/wiki/Xenophon" title="Xenophon">Xenophon</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>"Whatever a despot by enactment constrains the citizens to do without persuasion, is the negation of law?”<p>“Everything, I think, that men constrain others to do without persuasion, whether by enactment or not, is not law, but force.” </p><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Xenophon" title="Xenophon">Xenophon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pericles" title="Pericles">Pericles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Memorabilia" class="mw-redirect" title="Memorabilia">Memorabilia</a></i>, 1.2.41.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Y">Y</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Y"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Law is the backbone which keeps man erect. <ul><li>Seymour C. Yuter, arguing for passage of the Nuclear Test Ban treaty and Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty, <i>Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists</i>, Vol. 25, No. 8 (October 1969), p. 23.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Z">Z</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Because of plea-bargaining, I guess we can say, "Gee, the trains run on time." But do we like where they are going? <ul><li>Franklin E. Zimring, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916340-3,00.html">Law: Is Plea Bargaining a Cop-Out?</a>", <i>Time</i> (August 28, 1978).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Anonymous">Anonymous</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Anonymous"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>“There’s no justice, John! There is no reason at all for me to be kept here!”</li></ul> <dl><dd>“Justice is the first casualty of war and that’s the point we’re rapidly approaching." <ul><li>Mary Reed and Eric Mayer, <i><a href="/wiki/John,_the_Lord_Chamberlain#Two_for_Joy" title="John, the Lord Chamberlain">Two for Joy</a>, Ch. 21</i>.</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Necessitas non habet legem</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Necessity" title="Necessity">Necessity</a> has no law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous" title="Anonymous">Anonymous</a> <a href="/wiki/Latin_proverbs" title="Latin proverbs">Latin proverb</a> which arose in the middle ages, leading to many variant expressions and extensions in many cultures.</li></ul></li> <li>Variants:</li> <li><i>Quia enim necessitas non habet legem, set ipsa sibi facit legume</i> <ul><li>Necessity knows no law but makes law. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratian_(jurist)" class="extiw" title="w:Gratian (jurist)">Gratian</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decretum_Gratiani" class="extiw" title="w:Decretum Gratiani">Decretum Gratiani</a></i></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Necessity knows no laws. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_proverbs" title="Spanish proverbs">Spanish proverb</a>, as quoted in <i>The International Thesaurus of Quotations</i> (1970) edited by Rhoda Thomas Tripp, p. 429.</li></ul></li> <li>الضرورات تبيح المحظورات <ul><li>Necessity knows no restrictions. <ul><li>Arabic Proverb</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Necessity knows no laws, and a man must part with his last farthing to buy bread. <ul><li>"C." in <i>The Farmer's Magazine</i> Vol. 1, No. 4 (October 1838), p. 271.</li></ul></li> <li>Necessity knows no laws or customs. <ul><li>Joseph Kinmont Hart, <i>Mind in Transition : Patterns, Conflicts and Changes in the Evolution of the Mind</i> (1938), p. 88.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"><span id="Hoyt.27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"></span><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SpiderWeb.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/SpiderWeb.jpg/220px-SpiderWeb.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/SpiderWeb.jpg/330px-SpiderWeb.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/SpiderWeb.jpg/440px-SpiderWeb.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them. ~ <a href="/wiki/Anacharsis" title="Anacharsis">Anacharsis</a> </figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hoyt%27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_(1922)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> (1922), p. 430-34.</small></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Ove son leggi,<br />Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.</i> <ul><li>Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vittorio_Alfieri" title="Vittorio Alfieri">Vittorio Alfieri</a>, <i>Virginia</i>, II. 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anacharsis" title="Anacharsis">Anacharsis</a> to Solon when writing his laws.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Law is a bottomless pit.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Arbuthnot" title="John Arbuthnot">John Arbuthnot</a>, title of a pamphlet (c. 1700).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a>, <i>Apothegms</i>, No. 181.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a>, <i>Essays on Empire</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a>, <i>Impeachment of Warren Hastings</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a>, <i>Speech on the Conciliation of America</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a>, <i>Vindication of Natural Society</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory. <ul><li>Bishop Burnet, <i>History of His Own Times</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law of heaven and earth is life for life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, <i>The Curse of Minerva</i> (1811), Stanza 15.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Arms and laws do not flourish together. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a>, reported in <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, <i>Life of Cæsar</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Who to himself is law, no law doth need,<br />Offends no law, and is a king indeed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Chapman" title="George Chapman">George Chapman</a>, <i>Bussy d'Ambois</i>, Act II, scene 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Jus gentium.</i> <ul><li>The law of nations.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, <i>De Officiis</i> (44 B.C.), III. 17.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, <i>De Legibus</i> (<i>On the Laws</i>; c. 40s BC), Book III. I.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Silent enim leges inter arma.</i> <ul><li>For the <b>laws are dumb in the midst of arms.</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, <i>Pro Milone</i>, IV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Grover Cleveland</a>, Message (1 March 1886).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Edward_Coke" title="Edward Coke">Edward Coke</a>, <i>Debate in the Commons</i> (17 May 1628).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason.</b> * * * The law which is perfection of reason. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Edward_Coke" title="Edward Coke">Edward Coke</a>, <i>First Institute of the Lawes of England</i> (1628).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The gladsome light of jurisprudence. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Edward_Coke" title="Edward Coke">Edward Coke</a>, <i>First Institute of the Lawes of England</i> (1628).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>According to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel" class="mw-redirect" title="Daniel">Daniel</a>, VI. 8.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Denman" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Denman">Lord Denman</a>, <i>O'Connell vs. the Queen</i>, II. C. and F., 351 (Sept. 4, 1894).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving — HOW NOT TO DO IT.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <i>Little Dorrit</i>, Part I, Chapter X.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.</b> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._J._Field&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="S. J. Field (page does not exist)">S. J. Field</a>, when advised to arm himself, in California (1889).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Anthony_Froude" title="James Anthony Froude">James Anthony Froude</a>, <i>Short Studies on Great Subjects</i>, Calvinism.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Anthony_Froude" title="James Anthony Froude">James Anthony Froude</a>, <i>Short Studies on Great Subjects</i>, Reciprocal Duties of State and Subject.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Gibbon" title="Edward Gibbon">Edward Gibbon</a>, <i>The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</i>, Chapter XIV, Volume I.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Es erben sich Gesetz und Rechte<br />Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.</i> <ul><li>All rights and laws are still transmitted,<br />Like an eternal sickness to the race.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust" title="Goethe's Faust">Faust</a></i>, I. 4. 449.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A cloud of witnesses. <ul><li>Hebrews, XII. 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Quid leges sine moribus<br />Vanæ proficiunt?</i> <ul><li>Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immorality?</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, <i>Carmina</i>, III. 24. 35.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To the law and to the testimony. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isaiah" title="Isaiah">Isaiah</a>, VIII. 20.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, <i>Johnsoniana</i>, Piozzi's Anecdotes, 58.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.</i> <ul><li>The verdict acquits the raven, but condemns the dove.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juvenal" title="Juvenal">Juvenal</a>, <i>Satires</i> (early 2nd century), II. 63.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Ad quæstionem juris respondeant judices ad quæstionem facti respondeant juratores.</i> <ul><li><b>Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of the fact.</b> <ul><li>Law Maxim.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=G._H._Lewes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="G. H. Lewes (page does not exist)">G. H. Lewes</a>, <i>The Physiology of Common Life</i>, Chapter XIII.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Hominem improbum non accusari tutius est quam absolvi.</i> <ul><li><b>It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Livy" title="Livy">Livy</a>, <i>Annales</i>, XXXIV. 4.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>La charte sera désormais une vérité.</i> <ul><li>The charter will henceforth be a reality.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Philippe" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis Philippe">Louis Philippe</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Perchè, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.</i> <ul><li>For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manners that laws may be maintained.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli" title="Niccolò Machiavelli">Niccolò Machiavelli</a>, <i>Dei Discorsi</i>, I. 18.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yeer face while it picks yeer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macklin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Macklin (page does not exist)">Macklin</a>, <i>Love à la Mode</i>, Act II, scene 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Nisi per legale judicium parum suorum.</i> <ul><li>Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magna_Charta&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Magna Charta (page does not exist)">Magna Charta</a></i>, <i>Privilege of Barons of Parliament</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Certis * * * legibus omnia parent.</i> <ul><li><b>All things obey fixed laws.</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Manilius" title="Marcus Manilius">Marcus Manilius</a>, <i>Astronomica</i>, I, 479.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Caius_Marius&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caius Marius (page does not exist)">Caius Marius</a>, when complaint was made of his granting the freedom of Rome to a thousand Camerians, in <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>'s <i>Life of Caius Marius</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> in Matthew, XXII. 21.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As the case stands. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Middleton" title="Thomas Middleton">Thomas Middleton</a>, <i>Old Law</i> (1618-19), Act II, scene 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <i>Prose Works</i>, Volume I. Of Education.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Le bruit des armes l'empeschoit d'entendre la voix des lois.</i> <ul><li>The clatter of arms drowns the voice of the law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne" title="Michel de Montaigne">Michel de Montaigne</a>, <i>Essays</i>, III. I.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne" title="Michel de Montaigne">Michel de Montaigne</a>, <i>Essays</i>, <i>Of Vanity</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Neque enim lex est æquior ulla,<br />Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.</i> <ul><li>Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i>Ars Amatoria</i>, I. 665.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Sunt superis sua jura.</i> <ul><li>The gods have their own laws.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i>Metamorphoses</i>, IX. 499.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Where law ends, there tyranny begins. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Pitt,_Earl_of_Chatham" class="mw-redirect" title="William Pitt, Earl of Chatham">William Pitt, Earl of Chatham</a>, <i>Case of Wilkes</i>, speech (Jan. 9, 1770), last line.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.</i> <ul><li>You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Plautus" title="Plautus">Plautus</a>, <i>Mostellaria</i>, V, 1, 52.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Non est princeps super leges, sed leges supra principem.</i> <ul><li><b>The prince is not above the laws, but the laws above the prince.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger" title="Pliny the Younger">Pliny the Younger</a>, <i>Paneg. Traj.</i> 65.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All, look up with reverential awe,<br />At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <i>Epilogue to Satire</i>, Dialogue I, line 167.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Piecemeal they win this acre first then, that,<br />Glean on, and gather up the whole estate. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <i>Satires of Dr. Donne</i>, Satire II, line 91.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Once (says an Author; where, I need not say)<br />Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way;<br />Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew strong,<br />While Scale in hand Dame Justice pass'd along.<br />Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws.<br />Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause,<br />Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful Right,<br />Takes, open, swallows it, before their sight.<br />The cause of strife removed so rarely well,<br />"There take" (says Justice), "take ye each a shell.<br />We thrive at Westminster on Fools like you:<br />'Twas a fat oyster—live in peace—Adieu." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <i>Verbatim from Boileau</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let us consider the reasons of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/John_Powell" title="John Powell">John Powell</a>, <i>Coggs v. Bernard</i>, 2 Ld. Raym. 911.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. <ul><li>Proverbs, XI. 15.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>God detests the prayers of a person who ignores the law. <ul><li>Proverbs 28:9, New Living Translation</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>That very law which moulds a tear,<br />And bids it trickle from its source,<br />That law preserves the earth a sphere,<br />And guides the planets in their course. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Rogers" title="Samuel Rogers">Samuel Rogers</a>, <i>On a Tear</i>, Stanza 6.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>La loi permet souvent ce que défend l'honneur. <ul><li><b>The law often allows what honor forbids.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bernard-Joseph_Saurin" title="Bernard-Joseph Saurin">Bernard-Joseph Saurin</a>, <i>Spartacus</i>, III. 3.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.</i> <ul><li>If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, <i>Medea</i>, CXCIV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Qui statuit aliquid, parte inaudita altera,<br />Æquum licet statuerit, haud æquus fuerit.</i> <ul><li>He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, <i>Medea</i>, CXCIX.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Inertis est nescire, quid liceat sibi.<br />Id facere, laus est, quod decet; non, quod licet.</i> <ul><li>It is the act of the indolent not to know what he may lawfully do. It is praiseworthy to do what is becoming, and not merely what is lawful.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, <i>Octavia</i>, CCCCLIII.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is a higher law than the Constitution. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=W._H._Seward&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W. H. Seward (page does not exist)">W. H. Seward</a>, speech (11 March 1850).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized alone are entangled in.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shenstone" title="William Shenstone">William Shenstone</a>, <i>On Politics</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When to raise the wind some lawyer tries,<br />Mysterious skins of parchment meet our eyes;<br />On speeds the smiling suit—<br />. . . . . .<br />Till stript—nonsuited—he is doomed to toss<br />In legal shipwreck, and redeemless loss,<br />Lucky, if like Ulysses, he can keep<br />His head above the waters of the deep. <ul><li>Horace and James Smith, <i>Rejected Addresses</i>, <i>Architectural Atoms</i>. Translation by Dr. B. T.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Solon" title="Solon">Solon</a>, <i>Answer to Anacharsis</i>. In <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, <i>Life of Solon</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a>, <i>Essay on the Faculties of the Mind</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis.</i> <ul><li><b>He hurts the good who spares the bad.</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrus" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrus">Syrus</a>, <i>Maxims</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.</i> <ul><li>The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrus" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrus">Syrus</a>, <i>Maxims</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A man must not go to law because the musician keeps false time with his foot. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Taylor" title="Jeremy Taylor">Jeremy Taylor</a>, Volume VIII, p. 145. <i>The Worthy Communicant</i>, Chap, IV. Sect, IV. Quoted from Schott, <i>Adagia</i>, p. 351. Prov. E, Suida. Cent, II. 17.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Quod vos jus cogit, id voluntate impetret.</i> <ul><li>What the law insists upon, let it have of your own free will.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terence" title="Terence">Terence</a>, <i>Adelphi</i>, III. 4. 44.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Jus summum sæpe summa est malitia.</i> <ul><li><b>The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terence" title="Terence">Terence</a>, <i>Heauton timoroumenos</i>, IV. 5. 48.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law is good, if a man use it lawfully. <ul><li>I Timothy. I. 8.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No man e'er felt the halter draw,<br />With good opinion of the law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Trumbull" class="mw-redirect" title="John Trumbull">John Trumbull</a>, <i>McFingal</i>, Canto III, line 489.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Law: It has honored us, may we honor it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Webster" title="Daniel Webster">Daniel Webster</a>, <i>Toast at the Charleston Bar Dinner</i> (May 10, 1847).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The glorious uncertainty of law. <ul><li>Toast of Wilbraham at a dinner of judges and counsel at Serjeants' Inn Hall (1756). Quoted by Mr. Sheridan in 1802.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And he that gives us in these days<br />New Lords may give us new laws. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Wither" title="George Wither">George Wither</a>, <i>Contented Man's Morrice</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And through the heat of conflict keeps the law<br />In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, <i>Character of a Happy Warrior</i>, line 53.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Yelverton" class="extiw" title="w:Barry Yelverton">Barry Yelverton</a> (Lord Avonmore), on Blackstone.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id=""History,_Memory,_and_the_Law"_(August_2002)"><span id=".22History.2C_Memory.2C_and_the_Law.22_.28August_2002.29"></span>"History, Memory, and the Law" (August 2002)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: "History, Memory, and the Law" (August 2002)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><small> Thomas R. Kearns (August 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=J_9YVh0QmUQC">“History, Memory, and the Law”</a>. University of Michigan Press. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780472088997" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 978-0-472-08899-7</a>. </small> </p> <ul><li>Generally when <a href="/wiki/Scholars" class="mw-redirect" title="Scholars">scholars</a> talk about the relationship between <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a>, <a href="/wiki/Memory" title="Memory">memory</a>, and law, the latter is thought of solely as a passive object of historical change. Legal history is regarded as the study of the forces that have shaped law. It is the history of the evolution of law with law perpetually lagging behind society and being pushed and pulled from the outside. This view, as rich and productive as it is, ignores what might be called an “internal” perspective, one that would examine law for the way it uses and writes history as well as for the ways in which it also become a site of memory and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Commemoration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Commemoration (page does not exist)">commemoration</a>. <ul><li>Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns, “Writing History and Registering Memory in Legal Decisions and Legal Practices: An Introduction”, pp.1-2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>While law responds to <a href="/wiki/Historical" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical">historical</a> <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a>, it also makes history. Law <a href="/wiki/Writes" class="mw-redirect" title="Writes">writes</a> the <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a>, not just its own past, but the past for those over whom law seeks to exercise its <a href="/wiki/Dominion" class="mw-redirect" title="Dominion">dominion</a>. Law constructs a that it wants to present as <a href="/wiki/Authoritative" class="mw-redirect" title="Authoritative">authoritative</a>, when, as Laura Kalman argues, no historian “considers the past authoritative.” And law uses history to tell us who we are. <ul><li>Laura Kalman, “Strange Career”, 180; quoted in as quoted in p.3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Law <a href="/wiki/Looks" class="mw-redirect" title="Looks">looks</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a> as it <a href="/wiki/Speaks" class="mw-redirect" title="Speaks">speaks</a> to <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a> <a href="/wiki/Needs" class="mw-redirect" title="Needs">needs</a>. In the adjudication of every dispute, law traffics in the slippery terrain of <a href="/wiki/Memory" title="Memory">memory</a>, as different versions of past events are presented for <a href="/wiki/Authoritative" class="mw-redirect" title="Authoritative">authoritative</a> <a href="/wiki/Judgment" title="Judgment">judgment</a>. Moreover, in the production of supposedly definitive statements of what the law is in the form of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_opinion" class="extiw" title="w:Judicial opinion">judicial opinions</a>, law reconstructs its own past, tracing out lines of <a href="/wiki/Precedent" class="mw-redirect" title="Precedent">precedent</a> to their “compelling” conclusion. The relationship of law to <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> is thus complex and multidirectional. <ul><li>pp.3-4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>While there is contest about the meaning of the <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a>, of the precise relevance of law’s <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a>, to its <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a>, there is little dispute about the place of an historical sensibility in legal decision making. <ul><li>p.9</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To talk about law and collective memory is almost immediately to conjure images of the show trial where individual rights and truth were sacrificed in the service of political goals. Mark Osiel notes that <br /> acts asserting legal rights or officially stigmatizing their violation have often become a focal point for the collective memory of whole <a href="/wiki/Nations" title="Nations">nations</a>. These acts often become <a href="/wiki/Secular" class="mw-redirect" title="Secular">secular</a> <a href="/wiki/Rites" class="mw-redirect" title="Rites">rites</a> of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Commemoration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Commemoration (page does not exist)">commemoration</a>. As such, they consolidate shared memories with increasing deliberateness and sophistication. These events are both “real” and “staged.” In this regard, they seem to problematize the very distinction between <a href="/wiki/True" class="mw-redirect" title="True">true</a> and <a href="/wiki/False" class="mw-redirect" title="False">false</a> representations of <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>. <ul><li>Mark Osiel, Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1997), p.6; as quoted on p.11</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the classic, liberal conception, <a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">justice</a> requires <a href="/wiki/Impartial" class="mw-redirect" title="Impartial">impartial</a> adjudication of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Claims&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Claims (page does not exist)">claims</a> and <a href="/wiki/Accusations" class="mw-redirect" title="Accusations">accusations</a>. The sole <a href="/wiki/Question" title="Question">question</a> with which law should concern itself is whether, according to the <a href="/wiki/Evidence" title="Evidence">evidence</a> presented and the rules of <a href="/wiki/Proof" title="Proof">proof</a>, someone “did” what they were accused of doing or some event did or did not happen. How the result serves particular collective memories is an illegitimate consideration, the introduction of which may distort those values. Playing our larger issues in <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a> and <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">politics</a> through the <a href="/wiki/Trial" class="mw-redirect" title="Trial">trial</a> seems, if we take the liberal view seriously, a misuse of the judicial process. <br /> But the relationship of law and collective <a href="/wiki/Memory" title="Memory">memory</a> need not simply be discussed in terms of these normative concerns, namely whether it is right intentionally to use legal processes in the effort to create or vindicate collective memory. We might also approach the relationship between law and collective memory in a more descriptive vein and ask how and where law <a href="/wiki/Remembers" class="mw-redirect" title="Remembers">remembers</a> as well as how and where it helps us remember. <ul><li>pp.11-12</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a> moment, as Nora reminds us, [[memory] is “above all archival. It relies on the materiality of the trace, the immediacy of the recording, the visibility of the image. . . . Even as traditional memory disappears, we feel obliged assiduously to collect remains, testimonies, documents, images, speeches, any visible signs of what has been.” Museums, monuments, and so on are today, Nora argues, the locations of memory, the sites to which collective memory is attached. If that is indeed the case, one might ask whether law itself might be one of what Nora calls “les lieux de memoire.” <br /> Here our interest is directed to the temporal dimension of legality, the way law stands in relation to the past, the present, and the future. Law in the modern era is, we believe, one of the most important of ur society’s technologies for preserving memory. Just as the use of precedent to legitimate legal decisions fixes law in a aprticular relation to the past, memory may be attached, or attach itself, to law and be preserved in and through law. Where this is the case, it serves as one way of orienting ourselves to the future. As Drucilla Cornell puts it: “Legal interpretation demands that we remember the future.” In that phrase, Cornell reminds us that there are, in fact, two <a href="/wiki/Audiences" class="mw-redirect" title="Audiences">audiences</a> for every legal act, the audience of the present and the audience of the future. Law materializes memory in documents, transcripts, written opinions; it reenacts the past, both intentionally and unconsciously, and it is one place where the present speaks to the future through acts of commemoration. <ul><li>pp.12-13</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>“Legal documents . . . are written to be preserved and consulted . . . . The form and syntax of a legal document, whether from the twelfth century or the twentieth, reflect the form and syntax of other written documents” (Fentress and Wickham, Social Memory, 9). Footnote 61, p.12 <ul><li>p.12</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Law <a href="/w/index.php?title=Memorializes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Memorializes (page does not exist)">memorializes</a> not just in its archival activities, but in acts that give particular <a href="/wiki/Meanings" class="mw-redirect" title="Meanings">meanings</a> to our past. In every legal act there is an invitation to <a href="/wiki/Remember" class="mw-redirect" title="Remember">remember</a>; in the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Testimony&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Testimony (page does not exist)">testimony</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Witnesses" title="Witnesses">witnesses</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Trial" class="mw-redirect" title="Trial">trial</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Instructions" class="mw-redirect" title="Instructions">instructions</a> a <a href="/wiki/Judge" class="mw-disambig" title="Judge">judge</a> gives to a <a href="/wiki/Jury" title="Jury">jury</a>, in particular <a href="/w/index.php?title=Interpretive&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Interpretive (page does not exist)">interpretive</a> <a href="/wiki/Theories" class="mw-redirect" title="Theories">theories</a>, and in the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Monumental&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Monumental (page does not exist)">monumental</a> <a href="/wiki/Buildings" class="mw-redirect" title="Buildings">buildings</a> that house our <a href="/wiki/Courts" title="Courts">courts</a> as well as our <a href="/wiki/Prisons" class="mw-redirect" title="Prisons">prisons</a>, there is an insistent call to remember. <ul><li>p.13</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The essays in “History, Memory and the Law” address this subject, each in its own distinctive voice. They present grounded examinations of particular problems, places, and practices rather than grand theories. In so doing they address the ways in which memory works in and through law, the sites of <a href="/wiki/Remembrance" class="mw-redirect" title="Remembrance">remembrance</a> that law provides, the <a href="/wiki/Battles" class="mw-redirect" title="Battles">battles</a> against <a href="/wiki/Forgetting" title="Forgetting">forgetting</a> that are <a href="/wiki/Fought" class="mw-redirect" title="Fought">fought</a> in and around those sites. Here we attend to what Lucie White has labeled both the “<a href="/wiki/Epic" class="mw-redirect" title="Epic">epic</a>” style of remembering the past, the “grand, monumental, Manichean style . . . that splits the world, morally, along temporal lines,” as well as to what she calls the “<a href="/wiki/Tragic" class="mw-redirect" title="Tragic">tragic</a>” style of remembering. This style, White claims, “teases out the multiple, tangled, always partial threads that comprise the space where ‘<a href="/wiki/Civility" title="Civility">civility</a>’ has been enacted and resisted and reshaped.” This kind of remembering spurns “grand gestures.” It remembers in “grounded, gradual ways.” It makes the accomplishments of the past more hard fought, more tentative, more elusive, and more deeply intertwined with the <a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">moral</a> <a href="/wiki/Horrors" class="mw-redirect" title="Horrors">horrors</a> to which it insists we attend. <br /> The essays in this book also inquire about the way history is mobilized in legal decision making, the rhetorical techniques for marshaling and for overcoming precedent, and the different histories that are written in and through the legal process. Among the questions that they address are, How are the histories and memories created by law different by virtue of the site of their creation? Through what representational practices are the seeming continuities between past and present that are necessary to legitimize legal decisions constructed and preserved? Whose histories and memories “count” in law? What does history do to and for, law, and what does law do to history? Under what conditions do legal institutions, such as courts or prisons, becomes sites of memory? <ul><li>p.14 quoting Lucie White, “Why Do You Treat Us So Badly?’ On Loss, Remembrance, and Responsibility,” Cumberland Law Review 26 (1996): 812; Id., 813</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The essays in “History, Memory, and the Law” deploy a wide range of <a href="/wiki/Theories" class="mw-redirect" title="Theories">theories</a> in diverse <a href="/w/index.php?title=Contexts&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Contexts (page does not exist)">contexts</a> to show law’s role in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Commemoration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Commemoration (page does not exist)">commemoration</a> and the ways it constructs its own history. Yet each illuminates the limits of law as a site of <a href="/wiki/Memory" title="Memory">memory</a> and as a reader and interpreter of history. Each also highlights it flexibility, responsiveness, and adaptability. No memory, no matter how important or powerful it would seem to be, reliably can be preserved in and through legal decisions and institutions. No memory, no matter how powerful or important it would seem to be, reliably can make its presence felt to open up, to correct, or to control law. And similarly, the history that law constructs, as well as the techniques used to construct, cannot ensure a certain outcome. Law’s history and its hermeneutics are neither linear nor immune to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Improvisations&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Improvisations (page does not exist)">improvisations</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inventions" class="mw-redirect" title="Inventions">inventions</a>, and ingeniously <a href="/wiki/Artful" class="mw-redirect" title="Artful">artful</a> readings. To study history and memory in law, then, is to be reminded of law’s almost inexhaustible capacity to be, and do, many <a href="/wiki/Complex" class="mw-redirect" title="Complex">complex</a> and <a href="/wiki/Contradictory" class="mw-redirect" title="Contradictory">contradictory</a> things, all the while denying the contradictions and plausibly proclaiming its “formal existence.” <ul><li>p.24 quoting Fish, “Law Wishes to Have"</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Dictionary_of_Legal_Quotations_(1904)"><span id="The_Dictionary_of_Legal_Quotations_.281904.29"></span><i>The Dictionary of Legal Quotations</i> (1904)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, <i>The Dictionary of Legal Quotations</i> (1904), p. 147-157; 182</small></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ulam_Spiral_Divisors_100000.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Ulam_Spiral_Divisors_100000.png/220px-Ulam_Spiral_Divisors_100000.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Ulam_Spiral_Divisors_100000.png/330px-Ulam_Spiral_Divisors_100000.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Ulam_Spiral_Divisors_100000.png/440px-Ulam_Spiral_Divisors_100000.png 2x" data-file-width="3464" data-file-height="3464" /></a><figcaption> The law of necessity dispenses with things which otherwise are not lawful to be done.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>No man can come into a British Court of justice to seek the assistance of the law who founds his claim upon a contravention of the British laws. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Arden,_1st_Baron_Alvanley" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley">Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley</a>, C.J., <i>Morck v. Abel</i> (1802), 3 Bos. and Pull. 38.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Reading, maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man; — and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. <ul><li>Lord Bacon.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We may appeal to the experience of every sensible lawyer, whether anything can be more hazardous or discouraging than the usual entrance on the study of the law. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Blackstone" title="William Blackstone">William Blackstone</a>, <i>Commentaries</i>, Book I., Section 1, p. 16.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Duke_Coleridge" class="mw-redirect" title="John Duke Coleridge">John Duke Coleridge</a>, <i>Reg. v. Ramsey</i> (1883), 1 Cababe and Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 135.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I cannot say the law was ever a hard mistress to me: and she did not allow me long to languish in idleness, nor ever suffer me to be without hope. But, of course, I had many idle days, and I was rather fond of note-taking as a very instructive practice, whenever the case was an interesting one, and I found great benefit from it when the facility of taking an accurate and full note rapidly became of the greatest importance in the course of my after life at the Bar and on the Bench. <ul><li>Right Hon. Sir John T. Coleridge, "Circuit Reminiscences." <i>The Jur</i>. (N.S.) Vol. V. and VI., Part 2 (1869—1860), p. 377. See also post, Law Reports, 3, n.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is my province to lay down the law. Every lawyer knows that the law is the result of a great deal of learning. <ul><li>Erie, J., <i>Queen v. Dowling</i> (1848), 7 St. Tr. (N. S.) 438.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The truth is . . . the old feudal law existing in England … is only being broken down slowly by legislation and decisions of the Court, and . . . still exists to a very great extent. <ul><li>Kay, J., <i>Whitby v. Mitchell</i> (1889), L. R. 42 C. D. 500.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Murray,_1st_Earl_of_Mansfield" title="William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield">Lord Mansfield</a>, <i>Jones v. Randall</i> (1774) Lofft. 386.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The law does not consist in particular instances, though it is explained by particular instances and rules, but the law consists of principles, which govern specific and individual cases, as they happen to arise.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Murray,_1st_Earl_of_Mansfield" title="William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield">Lord Mansfield</a>, <i>R. v. Bembridge</i> (1783), 22 How. St. Tr. 155.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>That whom he could not by the sword destroy, he might supplant by the law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Henry_Hobart,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet">Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet</a>, C.J., <i>Sheffeild v. Ratcliffe</i> (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 335.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Contemporaria expositio legis est optima</i>, a contemporary exposition of a law, if there be any question about it, as our books tell us, is always the best, because the temper of the law-makers is then best known. <ul><li>Holt, C.J., <i>Harcourt v. Fox</i> (1693), Shower's Rep. 326.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am sorry to think, that Englishmen should seem to excuse themselves by ignorance of the law, which all subjects are bound to know, and are born to have the benefit of. <ul><li>Popham, C.J., <i>Trial of Sir Christopher Blunt and others</i> (1600), 1 How. St. Tr. 1450.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He had no right to take the law into his own hands. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Kenyon,_1st_Baron_Kenyon" title="Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon">Lord Kenyon</a>, <i>Tarleton v. McGawley</i> (1795), 2 Peake, N. P. Ca. 208.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every one must be supposed to be cognizant of a public law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Law,_1st_Baron_Ellenborough" title="Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough">Lord Ellenborough</a>, <i>Smith v. Beadnell</i> (1807), 1 Camp. 33.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every man (who is of sufficient understanding to be responsible for his actions) is supposed to be cognizant of the law, as it is the rule by which every subject of the kingdom is to be governed, and therefore it is his business to know it. <ul><li>Willes, J., <i>King v. Shipley</i> (1784), 3 Doug. 177.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Law,_1st_Baron_Ellenborough" title="Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough">Lord Ellenborough</a>, <i>Bilbie v. Lumley</i> (1802), 2 East, 469.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Ignorantia juris non excusat.</i> The true meaning of that <a href="/wiki/Maxim" class="mw-redirect" title="Maxim">maxim</a> is that parties cannot excuse themselves from liability from all civil or criminal consequences of their acts by alleging ignorance of the law, but there is no presumption that parties must be taken to know all the legal consequences of their acts, and especially where difficult questions of law, or of the practice of the Court are involved. <ul><li>Lord FitzGerald, <i>Seaton v. Seaton</i> (1888), L. R. 13 Ap. Ca. 78.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A mere evasion, colour, disguise and device to evade the law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Murray,_1st_Earl_of_Mansfield" title="William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield">Lord Mansfield</a>, <i>Sulfton v. Norton</i> (1761), 3 Burr. Part IV., p. 1237.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It has been said that ignorance of law is no excuse, but when the Court has a discretion the petitioner's ignorance of the law may be properly excused. <ul><li>Barnes, J., <i>Whitworth v. Whitworth and Thomasson</i> (1893), 62 L. J. Rep. P.C.C. (1893), p. 73.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Very happily, the more the law is looked into, the more it appears founded in equity, reason, and good sense.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Murray,_1st_Earl_of_Mansfield" title="William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield">Lord Mansfield</a>, <i>James v. Price</i> (1773), Lofft. 221.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It being a maxim that three things are always favoured in law, life, liberty and dower. <ul><li>Per. Cur., <i>Dumsday v. Hughes</i> (1803), 3 Bos. and Pull. 456.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Lex est sanctio jiista jubens honesta et prohibens contraria.<br />Lex est summa ratio.<br />Ratio est anima legis.<br />Nulla vetita ant turpia praesumuntur, sed contraria omnia legitima ataue honesta</i>.<br /><b>The common lawe itselfe is nothing else but reason; which is to be understood of an artificiall perfection of reason, gotten by long study, observation, and of experience, and not of every man's natural reason</b>; for <i>nemo nascitur artifem</i>. This legall reason <i>est summa ratio</i>. And therefore if all the reason that is dispersed into so many severall heads, were united into one, yet could he not make such a law as the law of England is, because by many successions of ages it hath been fined and refined by an infinite number of grave and learned men, and by long experience growne to such a perfection, for the gouvernment of this realme, as the old rule may be justly verified of it, <i>neminem oportet esse sapientiorem legibus</i>: no man, out of his own private reason, ought to be wiser than the law, which is the perfection of reason. <ul><li>Lord <a href="/wiki/Edward_Coke" title="Edward Coke">Edward Coke</a>'s Praise of the Law of England.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is true as a general proposition that knowledge of the law must be imputed to every person, but it would be too much to impute knowledge of this rule of equity; election as a question of intention of course implies knowledge. <ul><li>Lord Westbury, <i>Spread v. Morgan</i> (11 H. L. C. 602).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The laws alone are they that always speak with all persons, high or low, in one and the same impartial voice. The law knows no favourites. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Robert_Atkyns_(judge)" title="Robert Atkyns (judge)">Robert Atkyns</a>, L.C.B., <i>Trial of Sir Edward Hales</i> (1686), 11 How. St. Tr. 1206.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law would be a strange science if it rested solely upon Cases; and if after so large an increase of Commerce, Arts and Circumstances accruing, we must go to the time of Rich. I. to find a Case and see what is law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Murray,_1st_Earl_of_Mansfield" title="William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield">Lord Mansfield</a>, <i>Jones v. Randall</i> (1774) Lofft. 386.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Duke_Coleridge" class="mw-redirect" title="John Duke Coleridge">John Duke Coleridge</a>, <i>Reg. v. Ramsey</i> (1883), Cababe and Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 134.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Bayley,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet">Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet</a>, <i>King v. Woolf</i> (1819), 1 Chit. 423.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sometimes rhetorical phrases are applied even by eminent Judges to propositions of law. In Lord Dungannon v. Smith <a href="/wiki/Henry_Brougham,_1st_Baron_Brougham_and_Vaux" title="Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux">Lord Brougham</a> in eloquent language declared it as "one of the corner stones of the law," and I understand the Lord Chancellor in the same case to have considered the decision in Jee v. Audley to be "one of the landmarks." <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_William_Chitty&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph William Chitty (page does not exist)">Joseph William Chitty</a>, J., <i>In re Dawson</i>; <i>Johnston v. Hill</i> (1888), L. R. 39 C. D. 152.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I cannot help thinking that where a person appeals to the Law of England, he must take his remedy according to the Law of England to which he has appealed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Eardley_Wilmot" title="John Eardley Wilmot">Wilmot</a>, J., Robinson v. Bland (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV. 1084.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The sparks of all the sciences in the world are raked up in the ashes of the law.</b> <ul><li>Finche, L. b. 1, c. 3.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law is not apt to catch at actions. <ul><li>Powys, J., Ashby v. White (1703), 2 Ld. Raym. 944.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>It was nobly said in another place (I heard it with pleasure, and thought it becoming the dignity of the person who pronounced it, and the place in which it was pronounced) "that the law is best applied, when it is subservient to the honesty of the case."</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Francis_Buller,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet">Buller</a>, J., <i>Master v. Miller</i> (1791), 4 T. R. 335.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>It is of very little consequence to the public to lay down definite rules of law, if you have indefinite rules of evidence.</b> <ul><li>Thurlow, L.C., <i>Fox. v. Mackreth</i> (1788), 2 Cox, 320.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It has been sometimes said, <i>communis error facit jus</i>; but I say <i>communis opinio</i> is evidence of what the law is; not where it is an opinion merely floating and theoretical floating in the minds of persons but where it has been made the ground-work and substratum of practice. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Law,_1st_Baron_Ellenborough" title="Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough">Lord Ellenborough</a>, <i>Isherwood v. Oldknow</i> (1815), 3M. &S. (K. B. Rep.) 396, 397.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Judges could by their resolution alter the practice, but never the law.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Blackburn,_Baron_Blackburn" title="Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn">Blackburn</a>, J., <i>Reg. v. Charlesworth</i> (1861), 9 Cox, C. C. 67.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Law and conscience are one and the same.</b> <ul><li>Bacon, J., <i>Watson v. Watson</i> (1670), Style's Rep. 56.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law is for the protection of the weak more than the strong. <ul><li>Erie, J., <i>Reg v. Woolley</i> (1850), 4 Cox, C. C. 196.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Murray,_1st_Earl_of_Mansfield" title="William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield">Lord Mansfield</a>, <i>Evans v. The Chamberlain of London</i> (1720), (App. to Furneaux's Letters), 2 Burn's Eccl. Law, 207; Harrison v. Evans (in Error) 6 Bro. P. C. 181.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The law of England will not sanction what is inconsistent with humanity.</b> <ul><li>Best, J., <i>Hott v. Wilkes</i> (1820), 4 B. & A. 319.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Blackstone" title="William Blackstone">William Blackstone</a> (1765), <i>Commentaries</i>, Book III., Chapter 25, p. 336.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The law does not act vindictively.</b> <ul><li>Bacon, V.-C, <i>Barrett v. Hammond</i> (1879), L. R. 10 C. D. 289.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The law has respect to human infirmity.</b> <ul><li>Best, C.J., <i>Robertson v. McDougall</i> (1828), 4 Bing. 679.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We cannot judge of the fact, but the law upon the fact. <ul><li>Pratt, J., <i>Rex v. Inhabitantes de Haughton</i> (1718), 1 Str. Rep. 84.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Duke_Coleridge" class="mw-redirect" title="John Duke Coleridge">John Duke Coleridge</a>, C.J., <i>The Queen v. Bishop of London</i> (1889), L. R. 23 Q. B. 452.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Duke_Coleridge" class="mw-redirect" title="John Duke Coleridge">John Duke Coleridge</a>, C.J., <i>Body v. Halse</i> (1891) L. R. 1 Q. B. [1892], p. 207.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Your lordships must look hardships in the face rather than break down the rules of law. <ul><li>Lord Eldon, C, <i>Berkeley Peerage Case</i> (1811), 4 Camp. 419.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I would wish to do as much as possible for you; but I cannot strain the law. <ul><li>Earl of Clonwell, L.C.J., <i>Jackson's Case</i> (1795), 25 How. St. Tr. 879.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Law,_1st_Baron_Ellenborough" title="Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough">Lord Ellenborough</a>, <i>Beckwith v. Wood and another</i> (1817), 2 Starkie, 266.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hard cases, it is said, make bad law. <ul><li>Lord Campbell, C.J., <i>Ex parte Long</i> (1854), 3 W. R. 19.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All arguments on the hardship of a case, either on one side or the other, must be rejected, when we are pronouncing what the law is; for such arguments are only quicksands in the law, and, if indulged, will soon swallow up every principle of it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Francis_Buller,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet">Buller</a>, J., <i>Yates v. Hall</i>, (1785), 1 T. R. 80.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it. <ul><li>Romer, J., <i>Davies v. Parry</i> (1899), 1 L. R. C. D. 605.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no worse torture than the torture of laws. <ul><li>Lord Bacon, folio edition, Vol. I. 440, 441.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hard cases, it has been frequently observed, are apt to introduce bad law. <ul><li>Wolfe, B., Winterbottom v. Wright (1842), 10 Meeson k Welsby, 116.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>General laws cannot give way to particular cases. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Ashurst_(judge)" title="William Henry Ashurst (judge)">William Henry Ashurst</a>, King v. The College of Physicians (1797), 7 T. R. 290.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Kenyon,_1st_Baron_Kenyon" title="Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon">Lord Kenyon</a>, C.J., Clayton v. Adams (1796), 6 T. R. 605.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We must proceed according to evidence, and forms and methods of law; they may think what they will of me, but I will always declare my mind according to my conscience. <ul><li>Wright, L.C.J., <i>Trial of the Seven Bishops</i> (1688), 12 How. St. Tr. 344.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The law of England is a law of <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Law,_1st_Baron_Ellenborough" title="Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough">Lord Ellenborough</a>, <i>William Cobbett's Case</i> (1804), 24 How. St. Tr. 49.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Lex Anglite est lex misericordite</i>. <b>The law of England is a law of <a href="/wiki/Mercy" title="Mercy">mercy</a>.</b> <ul><li>Coke, 2 Inst. 315.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If the law be thought to be improper or inconvenient, application to correct it must be made elsewhere, and not to those who are bound by the repeated and solemn judgments of their predecessors. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Francis_Buller,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet">Buller</a>, J., <i>Bishop of London v. Ffytche</i> (1800), 1 East, 495.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No person is less disposed than I am to accommodate the law to the particular convenience of the case: but I am always glad when I find the strict law and the justice of the case going hand in hand together. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Kenyon,_1st_Baron_Kenyon" title="Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon">Lord Kenyon</a>, C.J., <i>Peaceable v. Read and others</i> (1801), 1 East. 573.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I agree that is the law, though I think it is a hard law; but we have nothing to do with the question of hardship. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Brett,_1st_Viscount_Esher" title="William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher">William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher</a>, M.R., <i>In re Perkins</i> (1890), L. R. 24 Q. B. D. 618.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Anglite jura in omni catu libertatis dant favorem</i>: The laws of England in every case of liberty are favourable. <ul><li>Fortescue c. 42.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What is ridiculous and absurd never is, to my mind, to be adopted either in law or in equity. <ul><li>Brett, M.R., In re Garnett; Gandy v. Macaulay (1885), L. R. 31 C. D. 9.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I think the law is generally reasonable.</b> <ul><li>Cotton, L.J., Bidder v. Bridges (1887), L. J. 57 C. D. 304.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Now when a rule of law which is against principle is alleged to be established, there are two points to be considered; first of all, was any such rule of law ever laid down by any Judge? That is the first point to be decided; and secondly, if it was so laid down, has it passed into a binding rule of law ?—that is, has it been so recognised and dealt with by subsequent Judges as to prevent a Judge of a tribunal of co-ordinate jurisdiction from saying that the decision is contrary to the course of law, and is not binding upon him. <ul><li>Jessel, M.R., <i>Henty v. Wrey</i> (1882), L. R. 21 C. D. 340.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The picture of law triumphant and justice prostrate, is not, I am aware, without admirers. To me it is a sorry spectacle.</b> The spirit of justice does not reside in formalities, or words, nor is the triumph of its administration to be found in successfully picking a way between the pitfalls of technicality. After all, the law is, or ought to be, but the handmaid of justice, and inflexibility, which is the most becoming robe of the latter, often serves to render the former grotesque. But <b>any real inroad upon the rights and opportunities for defence of a person charged with a breach of the law, whereby the certainty of justice might be imperilled, I conceive to be a matter of the highest moment.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Wilde,_1st_Baron_Penzance" title="James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance">Lord Penzance</a>, <i>Combe v. Edwards</i> (1878), L. R. 3 P. D. 142.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whatever disadvantages attach to a system of unwritten law, and of these we are fully sensible, it has at least this advantage, that its elasticity enables those who administer it to adapt it to the varying conditions of society, and to the requirements and habits of the age in which we live, so as to avoid the inconsistencies and injustice which arise when the law is no longer in harmony with the wants and usages and interests of the generation to which it is immediately applied. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Alexander_Cockburn,_12th_Baronet" title="Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet">Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet</a>, C.J., <i>Wason v. Walter</i> (1868), L. R. 4 Q. B. 93.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>You say well: the law of God is the law of England; and you have heard no law else, but what is consonant to the law of reason, which is the best law of God; and here is none else urged against you.</b> <ul><li>Keble, C.J., <i>Lilburne's Case</i> (1649), 4 How. St. Tr. 1307.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>God made man, and gave him a law to live by; and the laws of England are grounded on the laws of God: and in the laws of England every man is concerned. <ul><li>Garmond, J., Streater's Case (1653), 5 How. St. Tr. 387.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Personally, I detest any attempt to bring the law into maxims. Maxims are invariably wrong, that is, they are so general and large that they always include something which is not intended to be included. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Brett,_1st_Viscount_Esher" title="William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher">William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher</a>, M.R., <i>Yarmouth v. France</i> (1887), L. J. 57 Q. B. 9.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Remind him as always to keep his Legions intact, for they make the law legal. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Harrison" class="extiw" title="w:Rex Harrison">Reginald "Rex" Harrison</a> as Caesar, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_(1963_movie)" class="extiw" title="w:Cleopatra (1963 movie)">Cleopatra</a> (1963), around 6th minute of Act I</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no other power in England, but a legal power to punish according to law. <ul><li>Holt, C.J., <i>Duncombe's Case</i> (1699), 13 How. St. Tr. 1077.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Retrospective laws are, primd facie of questionable policy, and contrary to the general principle that legislation by which the conduct of mankind is to be regulated ought, when introduced for the first time, to deal with future acts, and ought not to change the character of past transactions carried on upon the faith of the then existing law. Leges et constitutiones futuris certum est dare formam negotiis non ad facta proBterita revocari; nisi nominatim et de praiterito tempore et adhuc pendentibus negotiis cautum sit. <ul><li>Willes, J., <i>Phillips v. Eyre</i> (1870), L. R. 6 Q. B. 23.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whatever place becomes the habitation of civilized men, there the laws of decency must be inforced. <ul><li>McDonald, C.B., <i>Rex v. Crunden</i> (1809), 2 Camp. 89.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no law whatsoever but may be dispensed with by the Supreme Law-giver; as the laws of God may be dispensed with by God himself; as it appears by God's command to Abraham, to offer up his son Isaac: so likewise the law of man may be dispensed with by the legislator, for a law may either be too wide or too narrow, and there may be many cases which may be out of the conveniences which did induce the law to be made; for it is impossible for the wisest lawmaker to foresee all the cases that may be, or are to be remedied, and therefore there must be a power somewhere, able to dispense with these laws. <ul><li>Herbert, C.J., Hale's Case (1686), 11 How. St. Tr. 1196.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Nova constitutio futuris formam impomere debet non praeteritis</i>: A new state of the law ought to affect the future, not the past. <ul><li>2 Inst. 292.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Lex prospicit non respicit</i>: The law looks forward, not backward. <ul><li>Jenk. Cent. 284.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Omnis nova eonstitutio futuris temporibus formam imponere debet, non prateritis</i>: Every new enactment should affect future, not past times. <ul><li>2 Inst. 95.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Leges posteriores priores, contrarias abrogant</i> <ul><li>Subsequent laws repeal prior contrary laws.</li> <li>11 Co. 626.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If the law be so, there must be some just and honest reason for it, or else some universal settled rule of law upon which it is grounded. <ul><li>Holt, C.J., Coggs v. Bernard (1704), Raym. 909.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If it is law, it will be found in our books. If it is not to be found there, it is not law. <ul><li>Camden, L.C.J., Case of Seizure of Papers (1765), 19 How. St. Tr. 1066.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You were speaking of the laws being in other tongues; those that we try you by are in English; and we proceed in English against you; and therefore you have no cause to complain. <ul><li>Michel, J., <i>Lilburne's Case</i> (1649), 4 How. St. Tr. 1311.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Bayley,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet">Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet</a>, <i>Forbes v. Cochrane and Cockburn</i> (1824), 2 St. Tr. (N. S.) 159.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A residence in a new country often introduces a change of legal condition, which imposes rights and obligations totally inconsistent with the former rights and obligations of the same persons. <ul><li>Lord Stowell, <i>The Slave Grace</i> (1827), 2 St. Tr. (N. S.) 289; 2 Hagg. 94.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law of nature is that which God at the time of creation of the nature of man infused into his heart, for his preservation and direction; and this is lex ceterna, the moral law, called also the law of nature. And by this law, written with the finger of God in the heart of man, were the people of God a long time governed, before the law was written by <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a>, who was the first reporter or writer of law in the world. <ul><li>Lord Coke, <i>Calvin's Case</i> (1608), 4 Co. 21.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>De non apparentibus, et noti existentibia, eadem est ratio</i>: Things which do not appear are to be treated as the same as those which do not exist. <ul><li>Co.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Shew me any law for that if you can, Mr. Williams, I know you are a lawyer. <ul><li>Jefferies, L.C.J., <i>Trial of John Hampden</i> (1684), 9 How. St. Tr. 1057.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every moral man is as much bound to obey the civil law of the land as the law of nature. <ul><li>Eooke, J., <i>Aubert v. Maze</i> (1801), 1 Bos. & Pull. 375.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If a man endeavours to obtain a repeal of those laws, which are conceived to be obnoxious, or the introduction of any laws which he believes to be salutary, if he does that legally, there is no objection to it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Bayley,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet">Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet</a>, <i>R. v. Hunt and others</i> (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 484.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It would be of ill-consequence, to authenticate a body of laws, that have lain dormant for two hundred years. <ul><li>Foster, J., <i>The King v. Bishop of Ely</i> (1750), 1 Black. Rep. 59.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Hawkins,_1st_Baron_Brampton" title="Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton">Hawkins</a>, J., <i>Roberts v. Jones; Willey v. Great Northern Railway Co.</i> (1891), L. R. 2 Q. B. [1891], p. 203.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The law has prescribed a particular method, and we cannot alter the law, nor prevent the inconveniences. <ul><li>Holt, C.J., <i>Tawney's Case</i> (1703), 2 Raym. 1013.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Necessity is the law of the time and action, and things are lawful by necessity, which otherwise are not</b>; "<i>Quicguid necessitas cogit, defendit</i>"; and the law of the time must regulate the law of the place in such public things. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Littleton,_1st_Baron_Littleton_of_Mounslow" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Littleton of Mounslow"> Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Littleton of Mounslow</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hampden" class="extiw" title="w:John Hampden">Hampden</a>'s Case</i> (1637), 3 How. St. Tr. 927.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is a public scandal when the law is forced to uphold a dishonest act. <ul><li>Lord <a href="/wiki/Edward_Macnaghten,_Baron_Macnaghten" title="Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten">Macnaghten‎</a>, <i>Nordenfelt v. Maxim Nordenfelt &c. Co.</i> (1894), L. R. App. Ca. Part 5, p. 573.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Sans fact conus, est impossible de seier la ley sur cest fact</i>: Without a known fact, it is impossible to know the law on that fact. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Vaughan_(chief_justice)" title="John Vaughan (chief justice)">John Vaughan</a>, J., <i>Bushel's Case</i> (1670), Jones's (Sir Thos.) Rep. 16.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Necessitas est lex temporis et loci</i> <ul><li><b>Necessity is the law of time and place.</b></li> <li><i>Hale's V. C.</i> 54.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The law of necessity dispenses with things which otherwise are not lawful to be done.</b> <ul><li>Per Cur., <i>Manby v. Scott</i> (1672), 1 Levinz, 4; 2 Sm. L. C. (8th ed.) 446.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Respectfully_Quoted_(1989)"><span id="Respectfully_Quoted_.281989.29"></span><i>Respectfully Quoted</i> (1989)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Respectfully Quoted (1989)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>He that keepeth the law of the Lord getteth the understanding thereof: and the perfection of the fear of the Lord is wisdom. <ul><li>The Bible (Apocrypha), Ecclesiasticus 21:11.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made. <ul><li>Widely attributed to <a href="/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck" title="Otto von Bismarck">Otto von Bismarck</a>. Reported as unverified in <i>Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations</i> (1989).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Blackstone" title="William Blackstone">William Blackstone</a>, <i>Commentaries on the Laws of England</i> (1783, reprinted 1978), 9th ed., book 1, chapter 1, section 3, p. 139.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Law never <i>is</i>, but is always about to be. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Cardozo" class="mw-redirect" title="Benjamin Cardozo">Benjamin Cardozo</a>, lecture to Yale Law School, 1921; <i>The Nature of the Judicial Process</i> (1921), lecture 3, p. 126.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws (I speak of human) so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Edward_Coke" title="Edward Coke">Edward Coke</a>, <i>Le Second Part Des Reportes Del Edward Coke</i> (1600–1659), p. vi . Spelling modernized, as reported in <i>Respectfully Quoted</i> (1989).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Good men must not obey the laws too well. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, "Politics", <i>Essays: Second Series</i>, in <i>The Complete Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson</i> (1929), vol. 1, p. 300.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city, that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population, that commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out; and that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law. But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; that the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it. The law is only a memorandum. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, "Politics", <i>Essays: Second Series</i> in <i>The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson</i> (1903), vol. 3, p. 199–200.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.">Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.</a>, speech at Harvard Law School Association of New York, New York City (February 15, 1913); <i>Speeches by Oliver Wendell Holmes</i> (1934), p. 101.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.">Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.</a>, associate justice, supreme court of Massachusetts, address delivered at the dedication of the new hall of Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts (January 8, 1897), Holmes, <i>Address Delivered at the Dedication…</i> (1897), p. 18.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The laws of God, the laws of man,<br />He may keep that will and can;<br />Not I: let God and man decree<br />Laws for themselves and not for me;<br />And if my ways are not as theirs<br />Let them mind their own affairs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A._E._Housman" title="A. E. Housman">A. E. Housman</a>, "The laws of God, the laws of man", line 1–6, <i>Last Poems</i>, in <i>The Collected Poems</i> (1967), p. 79.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, letter to John B. Colvin (September 20, 1810), in Paul L. Ford, ed., <i>The Writings of Thomas Jefferson</i> (1898), vol. 9, p. 279.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is, therefore, only one <a href="/wiki/Categorical_imperative" title="Categorical imperative">categorical imperative</a>. It is: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Kant" title="Immanuel Kant">Immanuel Kant</a>, <i>Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals</i> (1969), trans. Lewis W. Beck, ed. Robert P. Wolff, section 2, p. 44.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli" title="Niccolò Machiavelli">Niccolò Machiavelli</a>, <i>Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius</i> (1965), trans. Allan Gilbert, book 1, chapter 18, p. 241.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Madison" title="James Madison">James Madison</a> (?), <i>The Federalist</i>, ed. Benjamin F. 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