Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2024-06-20 Jun 20, 2024Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.~ Abraham LincolnHere 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 MiltonThe number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.~ P. D. Ouspensky Jun 19, 2024I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.~ Calvin CoolidgeFor a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.~ Cesare BeccariaLife and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.~ Earl Warren Jun 18, 2024Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.~ PlatoWhen any court violates the clean and unambiguous language of the constitution, a fraud is perpetrated and no one is bound to obey it.~ State v. SuttonThe two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.~ Thomas Jefferson Jun 17, 2024It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.~ Justice Charles Evans HughesAll truth is safe, and nothing else is safe; and he who keeps back the truth or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward, or a criminal, or both.~ Max MullerAn avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates his duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.~ Thomas Paine Jun 14, 2024We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.~ Benjamin R. TuckerIf you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.~ Cardinal RichelieuFormerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.~ Cornelius Tacitus Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print