Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-12-18 Dec 18, 2001Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.~ Judge David BazelonTo oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.~ G. Edward Griffin Dec 17, 2001No government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.~ Daniel Webster Dec 14, 2001I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.~ Thomas JeffersonAmerica's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.~ Bobcat Goldthwait Dec 13, 2001Ways may someday be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home.~ Justice Louis D. BrandeisHistorians and economists are very good at creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing the power placed in the hands of government.~ Reuven Brenner Dec 12, 2001Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.~ Justice Warren E. Burger Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print