Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [761-780] of 831 Law quotesLaw QuotesLaw Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and justice and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.~ Sun Tzu No State shall... coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts...~ United States Constitution To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is nonetheless a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms.~ United States Supreme Court Because of what appears to be a lawful command on the surface, many Citizens, because of their respect for what appears to be law, are cunningly coerced into waiving their rights due to ignorance.~ United States Supreme Court The Constitution prohibits any direct tax, unless in proportion to numbers as ascertained by the census..... [and] ... prohibits Congress from laying a direct tax on the revenue from property of the citizen without regard to state lines...~ United States Supreme Court ... [the 16th Amendment] conferred no new power of taxation... [and]... prohibited the ... power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged...~ United States Supreme Court The Constitution is a written instrument. As such it's meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted, it means now.~ United States Supreme Court ... bank records are not the depositor's private papers and having given the information to the bank, the depositor has no legitimate expectation of continued privacy... Records of an individual's accounts with banks are not the individual's private papers protected against compulsory production by the 4th Amendment, but instead are the business records of the banks.~ United States Supreme Court ...the intent of the lawmaker is to be found in the language that he has used.~ United States Supreme Court If you think talk is cheap, hire a lawyer.~ Unknown Democracy, n.: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, [chaos].~ U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 This Constitution... shall be the Supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby~ U.S. Constitution Article VI The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.~ U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8 This Constitution, ...shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby~ U.S. Constitution, Article VI The pages of history shine on instances of the jury's exercise of it's prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge.~ U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia We recognize, as appellants urge, the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given by the judge, and contrary to the evidence. This is a power that must exist as long as we adhere to the general verdict in criminal cases, for the courts cannot search the minds of the jurors to find the basis upon which they judge. If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused, is unjust, or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic of passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision.~ U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Maryland In this country sovereignty resides in the people, and Congress can exercise no power which they have not, by their Constitution, entrusted to it: All else is withheld.~ U.S. Supreme Court Congress may not abdicate or transfer to others its legitimate functions.~ U.S. Supreme Court The pages of history shine on instances of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge...~ U.S. vs. Dougherty The Second Amendment, like the First Amendment, is ... not mysterious. Nor is it equivocal. Least of all is it opaque. Rather, one may say, today it is simply unwelcome in any community that wants no one (save perhaps the police?) to keep or bear arms at all. But ... it is for them to seek repeal of this amendment (and so the repeal of its guarantee), in order to have their way. Or so the Constitution itself assuredly appears to require, if that is the way things are to be.~ William Van Alstyne Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print