"The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution."
~~~~~ Justice Byron White
Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Monday, June 8, 2015
Thought for Today
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Thought for Today
"There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
~~~~~ Jean Giraudoux
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Thought for Today
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."
~~~~~ Max Stirner
Friday, October 24, 2014
Thought for Today
"There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice."
~~~~~ Kurt Huber
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Thought for Today
"The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution."
~~~~~ Byron White
Monday, January 27, 2014
Thought for Today
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."
~~~~~ Learned Hand
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Thought for Today
"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt."
~~~~~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Friday, October 25, 2013
Thought for Today
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."
~~~~~ Max Stirner
Friday, November 23, 2012
Thought for Today
"Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose."
~~~~~ Gilbert Parker
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Thought for Today
"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."
~~~~~ George Savile
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Thought for Today
"What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?"
~~~~~ Antonin Scalia
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Thought for Today
"No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God."
~~~~~ William Blackstone
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Thought for Today
"There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot."
~~~~~ Derek Bok
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Thought for Today
"Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may."
~~~~~ Daniel Webster
Friday, May 28, 2010
Thought for Today
"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."
~~~~~ Louis D. Brandeis
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Thought for Today
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt."
~~~~~ Samuel Adams, essay in "The Public Advertiser," 1749
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Thought for Today
"You 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."
~~~~~ Lyndon Johnson
Monday, February 15, 2010
Thought for Today
"Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law."
~~~~~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Monday, January 11, 2010
Thought for Today
"Every doctor knows, as I did when I practiced years ago, how much unnecessary medical cost is incurred with an eye not on medicine but on the law. Tort reform would yield tens of billions in savings. Yet you cannot find it in the Democratic bills. And Obama breathed not a word about it in the full hour of his health-care news conference. Why? No mystery. The Democrats are parasitically dependent on huge donations from trial lawyers."
~~~~~ Charles Krauthammer
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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