Quotation of Law (法律名言录)14

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because ‘tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
John Selden (1584 - 1654)- More quotations on: [Laws]
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
Sir John Powell- More quotations on: [Laws]
It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign‘s boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
Henry Brougham (1778 - 1868)- More quotations on: [Laws]
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.
Marquis de Vauvenargues- More quotations on: [Equality]
Necessity has no law.
William Langland (1332 - 1400)- More quotations on: [Laws] [Necessity]
What power has law where only money rules.
Gaius Petronius (~66 AD)- More quotations on: [Laws]
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that‘s all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
Felix Frankfurter (1882 - 1965)- More quotations on: [Laws]
Good laws have their origins in bad morals.
Ambrosius Macrobius- More quotations on: [Laws] [Morality]
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man‘s nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)- More quotations on: [Revenge]