A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: laws Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: laws Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence. —Henry Brougham More about this quote Tags: laws Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. —Jeff Melvoin More about this quote Tags: laws Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. —John Selden More about this quote Tags: laws Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be. —Laozi More about this quote Tags: laws Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience 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 the law. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: laws Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email