
„Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.“
— Douglas William Jerrold English dramatist and writer 1803 - 1857
Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Queen v. Bishop of London (1889), L. R. 23 Q. B. 452.
— Douglas William Jerrold English dramatist and writer 1803 - 1857
Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
— Ambrose Bierce American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist 1842 - 1914
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
1850s, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)
— Lawrence Lessig, livro Cultura Livre
Free Culture (2004)
— Jeremy Bentham British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer 1748 - 1832
Attributed to Bentham in The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949) by Evan Esar, p. 29; no earlier sources for this have been located.
Disputed
— John Ralston Saul Canadian author and essayist 1947
Fonte: A Fair Country (2008), p. 128
— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax English politician 1633 - 1695
Of Laws.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
— Charan Singh prime minister of India 1902 - 1987
Fonte: Trysts with Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia, p. 80
— Catherine Jinks, livro Evil Genius
Fonte: Evil Genius
— Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale British lawyer 1783 - 1851
Carpmael v. Powis (1845), 9 Beav. 19.
Quote
— Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex English statesman and chief minister to King Henry VIII of England 1485 - 1540
Merriman, ii. p. 223.
— Allen C. Guelzo American historian 1953
2010s, Free Speech and Its Present Crisis (2018)
— Hung Hsiu-chu Taiwanese politician 1948
Attributed in: " Vice President http://www.ly.gov.tw/en/02_chief/chiefBiography.action?id=2" in The Legislative Yuan of Republic of China.
— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician 1820 - 1894
1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 133.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
— Dwight D. Eisenhower American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961) 1890 - 1969
1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
Contexto: So it is that the laws most binding us as a people are laws of the spirit—proclaimed in church and synagogue and mosque. These are the laws that truly declare the eternal equality of all men, of all races, before the man-made laws of our land. And we are profoundly aware that—in the world—we can claim the trust of hundreds of millions of people, across Africa and Asia—only as we ourselves hold high the banner of justice for all.
— Paul of Tarsus, livro Epistle to the Romans
Romans 3:19-31
Epistle to the Romans
Contexto: Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
— George Chapman English dramatist, poet, and translator 1559 - 1634
Revenge for Honour, Act III, scene ii.
Disputed
— Frank Hague Mayor of Jersey City 1876 - 1956
Speech on city government to the Emory Methodist Episcopal Church in Jersey City (10 November 1937), quoted in New York Times. (11 November 1937), p. 1, responding to the director of the Board of Education's special service bureau, upon being told that the law required two young delinquents to go to school rather than work, as they would have preferred.
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
Remarks by President Obama and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma in Joint Press Conference at Aung San Suu Kyi Residence in Rangoon, Burma on November 14, 2014 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/14/remarks-president-obama-and-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-burma-joint-press-confe
2014