law
“Amnesty, n. The state’s magnaminity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.”
“Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or change it.”
“Our civil laws will never be supple enough to fit the immense and changing variety of facts.”
“It is the duty of a good judge to interpret laws rather than to make them.”
“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.”
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.”
“Where there is no law, there is no freedom.”
“The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
“The phenomena of human society are subject to laws.”
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.”
“Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.”
“A page of history is worth a volume of logic.”
“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”
“An armed society is a polite society.”
“Authority, not truth, makes the law.”
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words.”
“Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.”
“For laws are silent in time of war.”