Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-04-16 Apr 16, 2014The 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 ChandlerThe law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.~ Thomas CooperIt is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.~ Eric Hoffer Apr 15, 2014Whenever 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 GibbonFreedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.~ John LockeThe test for whether one is living in a police state is that those who are charged with enforcing the law are allowed to break the laws with impunity.~ Jon Roland Apr 14, 2014In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man’s conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonOne has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws, but conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.~ Robert A. Heinlein Apr 11, 2014Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what they may.~ Daniel WebsterIf politicians don't respect the law, why should citizens respect politicians?~ Debra SaundersThe requirement of “due process” is not a fairweather or timid assurance. It must be respected in periods of calm and in times of trouble; it protects aliens as well as citizens.~ Felix Frankfurter Apr 10, 2014Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.~ John V. LindsayIt is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.~ Murray N. RothbardThe first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.~ Richard A. Viguerie Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print