Society...Institutions...LAW
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1284 C
“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
— Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
LAW, Prudence, Errors, Haste, Judgment
1285
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
— Blaise Pascal
LAW, Authority
1286 C
“Justice delayed, is justice denied.” — William E. Gladstone
LAW, Punishment, Procrastination
1287 C
“Do you know me Mr. Justice? Justice is blind; he knows nobody.” — John Dryden
LAW, Judgment, Punishment
1288 P
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
LAW, War & Peace
1289
“Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.” — Denis Diderot
LAW, Authority
1290
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.” — Edmund Burke
LAW, Government, Courage
1291
“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.” — Sir Winston Churchill
LAW, War & Peace
1292
“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.”
— Abraham Lincoln
LAW, Perception, Government
1293
“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.” — Marcus Tulius Cicero
LAW, Government, War & Peace, Courage
1294
“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.”
— Will Durant
LAW, Government, War & Peace
1295 C
“Order is Heaven’s first law.” — Alexander Pope
LAW, Planning, Personal Management, Chance, God
1296 C
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.” — Benjamin Disraeli
LAW, Principles, Conscience
1297 P
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
— Abraham Lincoln
LAW, Government
1298
“No laws are binding on the human subject which assault the body or violate the conscience.”
— William Blackstone
LAW, Conscience
1299
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” — Albert Einstein
LAW, Government, Honor
1300 A
“A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and
malady.” — Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
LAW, Government
1301
“Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.” — James Anthony Froude
LAW, Government, Goodness
1302
“Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons: those that make them, those that execute them, and those that suffer if they break them.” — Lord Halifax
LAW, Government, Politics, Punishment
1303 A
“Law should be like death, which spares no one.” — Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
LAW, Punishment, Death, Politics
1304 A
“Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.”
— Clarence Darrow
LAW, Government
1305 HA
“Litigation - A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.” — Ambrose Bierce
LAW, Greed
1306 H
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” — Robert Frost
LAW, Judgment
1307
“You have undertaken to ruin me. I will not sue you, for law takes too long. I will ruin you.”
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
LAW, Competition, Anger
1308 HA
“The plaintiff and defendant in an action at law are like two men ducking their heads in a bucket,
and daring each other to remain longest under water.” — Samuel Johnson
LAW, Hate
1309 HA
“A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.”
— Benjamin Franklin
LAW, Greed
1310
“Of the professions it may be said that soldiers are becoming too popular, parsons too lazy, physicians too mercenary, and lawyers too powerful.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
LAW, War & Peace, God, Health & Fitness, Authority
1311 H
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” — William Shakespeare
LAW, Politics
1312
“If you destroy a free market you create a black market. If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
— Sir Winston Churchill
LAW, Competition, Government
1313
“Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetuation of a single crime?” — Juvenal
LAW, Punishment, Dishonesty, Sin, Conscience, Habit
1314 P
“He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
LAW, Fear, Conscience, Accountability
LAW Cross-References
Wealth—47 • Errors—318 •
Haste—368 • Knowledge—520 • Honesty—787 •
Greed—879 • Character—939 • Principles—952-953 •
Sin—1014, 1016-1017, 1021, 1033 • Business—1051, 1058-1059 •
Authority—1127 • Accountability—1154, 1157 • Punishment—1216-1225 •
Politics—1246 • Government—1253-1254, 1260, 1264, 1273, 1276 •
War & Peace—1322-1323, 1334
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