Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-07-24 Jul 24, 2014The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.~ Sir Richard Francis BurtonThe most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. Indeed I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order.~ Adolf HitlerIt is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton Jul 23, 2014Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.~ Lord ActonYou have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'~ Neal BoortzI have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'~ Woodrow Wilson Jul 22, 2014The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.~ William Ellery ChanningIll habits gather by unseen degrees -- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.~ John DrydenWhat we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.~ Plutarch Jul 21, 2014The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching.~ Assyrian TabletMan was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.~ Jean-Jacques RousseauOnly the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.~ Nicolas-Sebasstien Chamfort Jul 18, 2014Nullification is but one legitimate result in an appropriate constitutional process safeguarded by judges and the judicial system. When juries refuse to convict on the basis of what they think are unjust laws, they are performing their duty as jurors.~ Judge Jack B. Weinstein[T]o deny a defendant of the possibility of jury nullification would be to defeat the central purpose of the jury system.~ Judge Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr.The right of the jury to decide questions of law was widely recognized in the colonies. In 1771, John Adams stated unequivocally that a juror should ignore a judge’s instruction on the law if it violates fundamental principles: “It is not only ... [the juror’s] right, but his duty, in that case, to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court.” There is much evidence of the general acceptance of this principle in the period immediately after the Constitution was adopted.~ Yale Law Journal Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print