Quote Genre: Law

Francis Vincent Frank Zappa Jr. – ‘The United States is a natio…

‘The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.’

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Daniel Webster – ‘The law: It has honored us; …

‘The law: It has honored us; may we honor it.’

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George Washington – ‘We ought to be persuaded tha…

‘We ought to be persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself has ordained.’

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Unknown – ‘The problem with any unwritt…

‘The problem with any unwritten law is that you dont know where to go to erase it.’

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Charles Alexis Henri Clerel de Tocqueville – ‘Laws are always unstable unl…

‘Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.’

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Henry David Thoreau – ‘The law will never make men …

‘The law will never make men free it is men that have to make the law free.’

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Lord Alfred Tennyson – ‘Mastering the lawless scienc…

‘Mastering the lawless science of our law That codeless myriad of precedent That wilderness of single instances.’

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Ralph Waldo Emerson – ‘No law can be sacred to me b…

‘No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is … Continue reading →

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General Dwight David Eisenhower – ‘The clearest way to show wha…

‘The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.’

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Diogenes the Cynic – ‘Solon used to say that speec…

‘Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; … that laws were like cobwebs for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them they held it fast; while if it were something weightier it broke … Continue reading →

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