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April 22nd, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Judge, W Comments Off

William Blackstone

Free men have arms; slaves do not.
William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
William Blackstone

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
William Blackstone

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
William Blackstone

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
William Blackstone

The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.
William Blackstone

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual’s private rights.
William Blackstone

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
William Blackstone

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
William Blackstone

April 22nd, 2012 Author Types, Authors, J, Judge Comments Off

Jean Bodin

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Jean Bodin

February 15th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, H, Judge No Comments »

Harry A. Blackmun

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
Harry A. Blackmun

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
Harry A. Blackmun

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
Harry A. Blackmun

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Harry A. Blackmun

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution’s protection of privacy.
Harry A. Blackmun

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.
Harry A. Blackmun

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
Harry A. Blackmun

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
Harry A. Blackmun

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.
Harry A. Blackmun

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
Harry A. Blackmun

May 16th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Judge, R No Comments »

Roy Bean

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.
Roy Bean

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.
Roy Bean

And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
Roy Bean

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there’s nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.
Roy Bean

Hang ‘em first, try ‘em later.
Roy Bean

I know the law… I am it’s greatest transgressor.
Roy Bean

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin’ brown and golden under a sinkin’ sun.
Roy Bean

November 9th, 2010 Author Types, Judge No Comments »

Joshua Willis Alexander

There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do not fully believe.
Joshua Willis Alexander

April 25th, 2010 Author Types, Authors, B, Judge No Comments »

Benjamin Cardozo

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
Benjamin Cardozo

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
Benjamin Cardozo

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
Benjamin Cardozo

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
Benjamin Cardozo

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
Benjamin Cardozo

Law never is, but is always about to be.
Benjamin Cardozo

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
Benjamin Cardozo

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
Benjamin Cardozo