The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.
The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies. . . Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?
The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law has always been the name of that rule or principle of justice, which protects those rights. Thus we spea...
Bass: The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon... it lies. Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave? Edwin Epps: Ha! Bass: Suppose! ...
However, this court is constrained by law, and under the law, I can only conclude that the Government has not violated FOIA by refusing to turn over the documents sought in the FOIA requests, and so cannot be compelled by this court of law to explain...
Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.
For 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, ...
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
The difference between a fear and a circumstance is acceptance
Human laws pattern divine laws, but divine laws use only originals.
I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws.
My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.
If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.
