Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-04-08 Apr 8, 2014If you believe it reprehensible to possess the means and will to use lethal force to repel a criminal assault, how can you call upon another to do so for you?~ Jeffrey R. SnyderHere the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.~ John MiltonNo man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.~ Thomas Jefferson Apr 7, 2014The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.~ Henry David ThoreauNo one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.~ H. L. MenckenSearch the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more.~ John F. McManus Apr 4, 2014The man who lives under the servitude of laws takes, without being aware of it, the soul of a slave.~ Georges RipertUnjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?~ Henry David ThoreauWhenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel.~ H. L. Mencken Apr 3, 2014The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.~ Eleanor Holmes NortonEveryone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.~ Ernest HemingwayWhen we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.~ George O'Neil Apr 2, 2014Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society -- the farmers, mechanics, and laborers -- who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.~ Andrew JacksonWe continue to claim that nobody is supposed to ignore the law. But we must give some credit to those who know it.~ Georges RipertIt will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?~ James Madison Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print