Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-10-18 Oct 18, 2005The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.~ Clarence S. DarrowPetty laws breed great crimes.~ OuidaLaws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.~ Jonathan Swift Oct 17, 2005The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.~ Justice William O. DouglasWe enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.~ Thomas SowellThe shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.~ Walt Whitman Oct 14, 2005We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land -- nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.~ Daniel WebsterI am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.~ Friedrich August von HayekThe number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.~ P. D. Ouspensky Oct 13, 2005Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.~ Henry David ThoreauWe must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.~ Edward R. MurrowDo what thy manhood bids thee do, From none but self expect applause: He noblest lives and noblest dies Who makes and keeps his self-made laws.~ Sir Richard Francis Burton Oct 12, 2005Useless laws weaken necessary laws.~ Charles-Louis de SecondatThere is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature, and of nations.~ Edmund BurkeWhenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.~ Edward Gibbon Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print