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  • In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Law Quotes
  • Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Law Quotes
  • The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Law Quotes , Magazines Quotes
  • One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Law Quotes , Special Quotes
  • The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : A. V. Dicey Quotes , Mean Quotes , Law Quotes
  • The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Law Quotes