Unless by the Lawful Judgment of Their Peers [.Lat., Nisi Per Legale Judicum Parum Suorum] ,Unattributed Author - Magna Charta--Privilege of Barons of Parliament
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.Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers [.Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum] ,Unattributed Author - Magna Charta--Privilege of Barons of Parliament Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and .therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation Henry Brooks Adams - .The laws of a state change with the changing times Aeschylus - .Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble ,It., Ove son leggi] [.Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse (Vittorio Alfieri, Virginia (II, 1 - .Law is king of all Henry Alford, School of the Heart - (lesson 6) .Laws are the silent assessors of God William R. Alger - 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 Anacharsis, to Solon when writing his laws - Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the .community Saint Thomas Aquinas - .Law is a bottomless pit ,John Arbuthnot - (title of a pamphlet (about 1700 .Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them Aristotle - At his best man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the .worst Aristotle - .The law is reason free from passion Aristotle - .Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man Aristotle - .Decided cases are the anchors of the law, as laws are of the state Francis Bacon - One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small ".flies were caught, and the great brake through (Francis Bacon, Apothegms (no. 181 - .All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing Francis Bacon, Essays on Empire - .A mouse-trap; easy to enter, but not easy to get out of Mrs. Clara Lucas Balfour - .Laws are silent in the midst of arms John Bate - .A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it Henry Ward Beecher - .Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them Henry Ward Beecher - Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, .according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not (Bible, Daniel (ch. VI, v. 8 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run ,with patience the race that is set before us Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the same, and is set down at the right hand of .the throne of God (Bible, Hebrews (ch. XII, v. 1-2 - ;But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of .fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers (Bible, I Timothy (ch. I, v. 8-9 - To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because .there is no light in them (Bible, Isaiah (ch. VIII, v. 20 - They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar .the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's (Bible, Matthew (ch. XXII, v. 21 - .He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it (Bible, Proverbs (ch. XI, v. 15 - Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to .exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law Henry Campbell Black - It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices .serviceable to the cause of virtue 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Henry St. John - Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto .himself; it invites anarchy ,Louis D. Brandeis - part of his dissent in the case "Olmstead v. United States", 277 U.S. 438, 485 ((1928 The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits some one else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law .creates a crime Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton - !Alas, the incertitude of the law Edmund Burke - All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the .substance of original justice Edmund Burke - .Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity Edmund Burke - There is but one law for all; namely, that law which governs all law,--the law of our .Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity; the law of nature and of nations Edmund Burke - 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 ,Edmund Burke - Impeachment of Warren Hastings .I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people ,Edmund Burke - Speech on the Conciliation of America 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 ,Edmund Burke - Vindication of Natural Society The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and .dilatory ,Bishop Gilbert Burnet - History of His Own Times .That which is a law today is none tomorrow Robert Burton - 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 ,Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader Laws do not put the least restraint ;Upon our freedom but maintain 't ,Or, if it does, 'tis for our good ;To give us freer latitude ,For wholesome laws preserve us free .By stinting of our liberty (Samuel Butler (1 - ,Your pettifoggers damn their souls .To share with knaves in cheating fools Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras - (pt. II, canto I, l. 515) ,Is not the winding up witnesses ?And nicking, more than half the bus'ness For witnesses, like watches, go ;Just as they're set, too fast or slow ,And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd .Tis ten to one that side is cast' Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras - (pt. II, canto II, l. 359) .The law of heaven and earth is life for life ,(Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron - (The Curse of Minerva (st. 15 .Arms and laws do not flourish together ,(Julius Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar - "in Plutarch's "Parallel Lives", "Julius Caesar .Hard cases, it is said, make bad law Lord John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell - .Law never is, but is always about to be Benjamin Cardozo - No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular .opinion ,Carrie Chapman Catt - in a speech at Senate hearing on Woman's suffrage ,Who to himself is law, no law doth need .Offends no law, and is a king indeed George Chapman, Bussy d'Ambois - (act II, sc. 1) The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the winds may blow through it, the storm may enter, the .rain may enter; but the king of England cannot enter 1st Earl of Chatham, William Pitt - .Where law ends, there tyranny begins 1st Earl of Chatham, William Pitt - .Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice Mrs. Lydia Maria Child - .Possession is eleven points in the law Colley Cibber - .The good of the people is the chief law (Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short - .The law of nations [.Lat., Jus gentium] ,(Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short - (De Officiis (III, 17 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 ,(Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short - (On the Laws (bk. III, I .For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms [.Lat., Silent enim leges inter arma] ,(Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short - (Pro Milone (IV After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws .are brought forth Steven Grover Cleveland, Message - .Common law is common right ,Lord Edward Coke - as quoted by William Penn at his trial .Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign Lord Edward Coke, Debate in the Commons - Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but .reason.