Law Quotes - Page 357

The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction is due to our want of perception, since our knowledge of laws and causes is so small compared to their total sum.

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.