Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [341-360] of 823 Law quotesLaw QuotesLaw Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.~ Ernest Hemingway Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them so what good are they?~ Ammon Hennacy An anarchist is anyone who doesn't need a cop to tell him what to do.~ Ammon Hennacy Let Mr. Madison tell me when did liberty ever exist when the sword and the purse were given up from the people? Unless a miracle shall interpose, no nation ever did, nor ever can retain its liberty after the loss of the sword and the purse.~ Patrick Henry The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.~ Heraclitus The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.~ Frank Herbert Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.~ Frank Herbert Political correctness is simply tyranny with manners.~ Charlton Heston Democrats and Republicans alike support the "War on Drugs." Federal, state, and local police make more than a million drug arrests yearly. Drug cases clog the courts. More than 60% of federal prison cells and about 30% of state prison cells hold drug offenders. No-knock drug raiders nullify the Fourth Amendment every day. Yet illicit drugs continue to pour onto the market, and they are readily available throughout the land. Looks like another failed policy. But politicians say more money will win the war. For fiscal 1996, President Clinton has requested a record $14.6 billion for this exercise in futility. State and local government will also spend huge sums. Who benefits? Posturing politicians and puritanical zealots, of course, but also the Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs Service, Coast Guard, FBI, and the rest of the drug warriors. Police love the drug war, because the forfeiture laws it inspired allow them to seize and keep private property with impunity. Corrupt cops get fabulous bribes, and corruption therefore runs rampant.~ Robert Higgs If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.~ George Stillman Hillard What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow; that is the whole Law: all the rest is interpretation.~ Hillel A decision of the Fuhrer in the express form of a law or decree may not be scrutinized by a judge. In addition, the judge is bound by any other decision of the Fuhrer, provided that they are clearly intended to declare law.~ Adolf Hitler Without law and order our nation cannot survive.~ Adolf Hitler Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.~ Thomas Hobbes The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.~ Eric Hoffer The president of the American Bar Association begins a nationwide tour, giving speeches on the dangers of Treaty Law: 'The doctrine that the treaty power is unlimited and omnipotent and may be used to OVERRIDE the Constitution and the Bill of Rights...is a doctrine of recent origin and largely derived from Missouri v. Holland.'~ Frank E. Holman If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought -- not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print