Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [701-720] of 827 Law quotesLaw QuotesLaw Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.~ Justice Potter Stewart The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a “personal” right.~ Justice Potter Stewart The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.~ Max Stirner The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ~ Max Stirner If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.~ Harlan F. Stone The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.~ Harlan F. Stone The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.~ Harlan F. Stone The pretence is made that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness, and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.~ J. A. Stormer This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion.~ Justice Joseph Story Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the people choose that they be.~ Supreme Court of the United States Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.~ Jonathan Swift It is a maxim among lawyers that whatever hath been done before may be done again, and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opinions, and the judges never fail of directing them accordingly.~ Jonathan Swift The Illinois eavesdropping statute restricts a medium of expression commonly used for the preservation and communication of information and ideas, thus triggering First Amendment scrutiny. Illinois has criminalized the nonconsensual recording of most any oral communication, including recordings of public officials doing the public’s business in public and regardless of whether the recording is open or surreptitious. Defending the broad sweep of this statute, the State’s Attorney relies on the government’s interest in protecting conversational privacy, but that interest is not implicated when police officers are performing their duties in public places and engaging in public communications audible to persons who witness the events. Even under the more lenient intermediate standard of scrutiny applicable to content-neutral burdens on speech, this application of the statute very likely flunks. The Illinois eavesdropping statute restricts far more speech than necessary to protect legitimate privacy interests; as applied to the facts alleged here, it likely violates the First Amendment’s free-speech and free-press guarantees.~ Judge Diane Schwerm Sykes The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.~ Cornelius Tacitus Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges. (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.)~ Cornelius Tacitus Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.~ Cornelius Tacitus We are corrupted by prosperity. And when the state is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.~ William Howard Taft Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.~ A. J. P. Taylor ...and in all cases of libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.~ Texas Constitution Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print