Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [781-800] of 827 Law quotesLaw QuotesLaw Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.~ Richard A. Viguerie The rights enumerated in this Bill of Rights shall not be construed to limit other rights of the people not therein expressed.~ Virginia Declaration of Rights All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws.~ Voltaire Let the laws be clear, uniform and precise; to interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them.~ Voltaire It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.~ Voltaire We are all full of weakness and errors, let us mutually pardon each other our follies. It is the first law of nature.~ Voltaire What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.~ Voltaire The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night.~ Otto von Bismarck The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.~ Johann von Schiller No man shall twice be sentenced by Civil Justice for one and the same crime, offense, or trespass.~ Nathaniel Ward If a law to donate aid to any farmer or cattleman who has had poor crops or lost his cattle comes within the meaning of the phrase “to provide for the General Welfare of the United States,” why should not similar gifts be made to grocers, shopkeepers, miners, and other businessmen who have made losses through financial depression, or to wage earners out of employment? Why is not their property equally within the purview of the General Welfare?~ Charles Warren Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.~ Earl Warren There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.~ George Washington Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.~ George Washington Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness.~ George Washington Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.~ George Washington Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.~ George Washington The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend on God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.~ George Washington Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.~ George Washington Impeachment is about whatever the Congress says it is. There is no law that dictates impeachment. What the Constitution says is “high crimes and misdemeanors,” and we define that.~ Maxine Waters Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print