 Quote > Value of legislationYou do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. Continued at top
Owned by Unordained - Created on 09/04/2003 - Never edited 11/01/05 :: Folder :: Law & Justice01/09/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Law as parent 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mahatma GandhiFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.  03/31/04 :: Article :: Dark future for the law? ::  11/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Benefits and obligations that come naturally with marriage09/04/03 :: Quote :: Jean-Paul SartreWhen the rich make war it's the poor who die. 08/15/05 :: Quote :: R.S. Surtees (author)More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. 07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonAn honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. 06/07/05 :: Article :: Scalia on Constitutional Interpretation :: The living Constitution be damned05/28/06 :: Quote :: George Bernard ShawCriminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. 01/08/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: UK report upcoming on psychosis effects of cannabis (pot) 12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Culture and What Courts Can't Do12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Opponents Of Gay Marriage Divided11/23/05 :: Quote :: Henry David ThoreauAny fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. 11/23/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Guerrilla News Network10/03/05 :: Quote :: John MiltonHere the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and
punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
09/29/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: Millet system of law09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeOne of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: John F. KennedyMankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Stalin (disputed?)A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. 06/10/05 :: Quote :: Abraham LincolnThe best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. 05/20/04 :: Article :: Holding back :: Laws are only for the lawful?03/11/04 :: Quote :: George ChapmanWho to himself is law no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.  12/15/08 :: Quote :: Bertrand RussellEverything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. 09/30/04 :: Article :: What do you want to do when you grow up? :: Legislating intent just seems like such a bad idea.09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court JusticeThe very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submi [...] 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert FrostA civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. 09/16/03 :: Quote :: GandalfMany that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
08/19/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)08/19/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Cops Against the Drug War07/31/08 :: Quote :: HL MenckenThe trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick HenryThe Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. 04/26/07 :: Quote :: Albert EinsteinThe significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. 03/15/07 :: Quote :: O'RourkeWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. |
