Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 823 Law quotesLaw QuotesLaw Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Each peso [or dollar] is a contract between the government and the peso holder. That contract guarantees that each peso -- as a unit of value that the holder has worked hard to get -- will be worth as much tomorrow as today. If the government breaks the contract, it's breaking the law. The only role of government in the economy should be to guarantee the integrity of market transactions.~ Domingo Cavallo He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.~ Raymond Chandler The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.~ Raymond Chandler The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.~ Samuel Chase The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.~ Samuel Chase Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.~ Chinese Proverb The federal criminal code currently includes more than 3,000 offenses and hardly a congressional session goes by without an attempt to add new sections.~ Stephen Chippendale In the United States, Sovereignty resides in the people, who act through the organs established by the Constitution.~ Chisholm v. Georgia Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.~ Rufus Choate The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.~ Sir Winston Churchill If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.~ Sir Winston Churchill You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.~ Sir Winston Churchill We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, Trial by Jury, and the English common law, find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.~ Winston Churchill The more laws, the less justice.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading, a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print