Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [721-740] of 827 Law quotesLaw QuotesLaw Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Where law ends, tyranny begins.~ Margaret Thatcher Under federal law the government is allowed to seize a person’s assets and distribute them, even if the accused is acquitted, or the charges eventually dropped, those assets may be transferred to state law enforcement agencies.~ The Daily Oklahoman If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.~ The Holy Bible Take no usury of him, or increase... thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury.~ The Holy Bible Unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: That the Lord thy God bless thee.~ The Holy Bible But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.~ The Holy Bible For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.~ The Holy Bible So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever. And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.~ The Holy Bible Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.~ The Holy Bible [N]one are so emboldened as thugs who, in spite of the law are armed, in confrontations with law-abiding citizens who, because of the law, are disarmed.~ The New American All statutes are presumed constitutional and the party challenging the constitutionality of a statute has the burden of clearly establishing that it violates the constitution.~ Justice Robert R. Thomas Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found “against the evidence,” ... the English common law rests upon a bargain between the Law and the people: The jury box is where the people come into the court: The judge watches them and the people watch back. A jury is the place where the bargain is struck. The jury attends in judgment, not only upon the accused, but also upon the justice and the humanity of the Law.~ E. P. Thompson It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.~ Hunter S. Thompson I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. ~ Henry David Thoreau If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.~ Henry David Thoreau Must a citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.~ Henry David Thoreau Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.~ Henry David Thoreau Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?~ Henry David Thoreau Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.~ Henry David Thoreau Law never made men a whit more just.~ Henry David Thoreau Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print