Quotation of Law (法律名言录)13

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
William Congreve (1670 - 1729)The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)- More quotations on: [Laws]
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.
Victor Cousin (1792 - 1867)Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)- More quotations on: [Laws]
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)- More quotations on: [Laws] [Equality]
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)- More quotations on: [Laws]
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren (1891 - 1974)- More quotations on: [Justice] [Laws]
Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)- More quotations on: [Laws]
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.
John Dalberg