Hugo Black Quotes

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious

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• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Law

• The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Law
  • Facts
  • Jury

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• At 8, I made a pact with God.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • God
  • Made
  • Pact

• It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Why
  • Job
  • High

• Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Order

• If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Law

• I steal from every movie ever made.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Made
  • Ever

• History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact, - see how it could and must be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • History
  • Nature
  • Law

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Wonder

• I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Men
  • Law
  • Guilty

• We believe that personal independence and equal human rights can never be forfeited, except for crime; that marriage should be an equal and permanent partnership, and so recognized by law; that until it is so recognized, married partners should provide against the radical injustice of present laws, by every means in their power...

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Law

• Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at 'capitalism' because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Why
  • Law

• Scientifically speaking, an overweight person is more attractive than a skinny one. Newton's Law of Gravitation.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Law

• I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice - are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?

  

  Al Gore
  • Power
  • Law
  • Decision

• That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

  

  Algernon Sidney
  • Law

• We must not approach the observance and enforcement of this law in a vengeful spirit. Its purpose is not to punish. Its purpose is not to divide, but to end divisions - divisions which have all lasted too long. Its purpose is national, not regional.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Long
  • Law
  • Purpose

• I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Movie
  • Girl
  • Law

• The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Law

• I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Work
  • Play
  • Wells

• This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Responsibility

• That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • World
  • History
  • Law

• There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

  

  Ellen Gallagher
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious

  

  Hugo Black
  • Law
  • Made
  • Protect