 Quote > An honest man can feel no pleasure...An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. Continued at top
Owned by Unordained - Created on 07/31/2005 - Never edited 11/01/05 :: Folder :: Law & Justice01/28/05 :: Person :: Thomas Jefferson 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. 09/04/03 :: 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? ::  07/01/04 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonThe legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are only injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. 11/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Benefits and obligations that come naturally with marriage09/04/03 :: Quote :: Lyndon JohnsonYou 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. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Jean-Paul SartreWhen the rich make war it's the poor who die. 08/18/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Live free or die08/15/05 :: Quote :: R.S. Surtees (author)More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. 08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonSometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. 07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonYet it is easy to foresee, from the nature of things, that the encroachments of the State governments will tend to an excess of liberty which will correct itself, while those of the General Government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day. 07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. 07/01/04 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonA wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement. 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 Network10/07/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonThe will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. 10/03/05 :: 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.
09/30/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonWe are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed. 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. 08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonShake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. 08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonThe care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills. 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. 01/14/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.  12/15/08 :: Quote :: Bertrand RussellEverything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. 11/08/06 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonIn matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. 10/02/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be.
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 :: 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 War08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
[I rarely see the second part quoted, but I think it's important to realize that Jefferson knew the implications of wha [...] 07/31/08 :: 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. |
