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The Roman emperors were possessed of the whole legislative as well as executive power.: Joseph Addison

Law is a bottomless pit: John Bull was flattered by the lawyers that his suit would not last above a year; yet ten long years did Hocus steer his cause through all the meanders of the law, and all the courts.: John Arbuthnot

The Roman laws gave particular exemptions to such as built ships or traded in corn.: John Arbuthnot

Decent executions keep the world in awe: for that reason the majority of mankind ought to be hanged every year.: John Arbuthnot

A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs: a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.: Francis Atterbury

They are the best laws by which the king hath the justest prerogative and the people the best liberty.: Francis Bacon

It is but a loose thing to speak of possibilities, without the particular designs; so is it to speak of lawfulness without the particular.: Francis Bacon

Aristotle himself has said, speaking of the laws of his own country, that jurisprudence, or the knowledge of those laws, is the principal and most perfect branch of ethics.: Sir William Blackstone

Human legislators have, for the most part, chosen to make the sanction of their laws rather vindicatory than remuneratory, or to consist rather in punishments than in actual particular rewards.: Sir William Blackstone

Outrageous penalties, being seldom or never inflicted, are hardly known to be law by the public; but that rather aggravates the mischief by laying a snare for the unwary.: Sir William Blackstone

In effect, to follow, not to force, the public inclination,—to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislation.: Edmund Burke

That discretion, which in judicature is well said by Lord Coke to be a crooked cord, in legislature is a golden rule.: Edmund Burke

Do they mean to invalidate, annul, or call in question that great body of our statute law? to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties?: Edmund Burke

His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.: Edmund Burke

If Lord Nottingham drew it [the Statute of Frauds], he was the less qualified to construe it: the author of an act considering more what he privately intended, than the meaning he has expressed.: Lord Campbell

Alas! how many causes that can plead well for themselves in the courts of Westminster, and yet in the general court of the universe, and free soul of man, have no word to utter!: Thomas Carlyle

The straitening and confining the profession of the common law must naturally extend and enlarge the jurisdiction of the chancery.: Earl of Clarendon

If I am asked a question of common law, I should be ashamed if I could not immediately answer it; but if I am asked a question of statute law, I should be ashamed to answer it without referring to the statute book.: Sir Edward Coke

Those who made laws had their minds above the vulgar: and yet unaccountably the public constitutions of nations vary.: Jeremy Collier

Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.: Charles Caleb Colton

Those good laws were like good lessons set for a flute out of tune; of which lessons little use can be made till the flute be made fit to be played on.: Sir John Davies

Give us leave to enjoy the government and benefit of laws under which we were born, and which we desire to transmit to our posterity.: John Dryden

A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting.: John Dryden

Christianity is part of the law of England.: Lord-Chancellor Eldon

Laws were made to restrain and punish the wicked: the wise and good do not need them as a guide, but only as a shield against rapine and oppression: they can live civilly and orderly though there were no law in the world.: Owen Felltham

I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of a nation.: Fletcher of Saltoun

By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death: a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery.: Benjamin Franklin

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more—they reward virtue.: Oliver Goldsmith

Many things that obtain as common law had their original by parliamentary acts, or constitutions made in writings by the king, lords, and commons.: Sir Matthew Hale

All before Richard I. is before time of memory; and what is since is, in a legal sense, within the time of memory.: Sir Matthew Hale

All the laws of this kingdom have some monuments or memorials thereof in writing, yet all of them have not their original in writing; for some of those laws have obtained their force by immemorial usage or custom.: Sir Matthew Hale

Jurors are not bound to believe two witnesses, if the probability of the fact does reasonably encounter them.: Sir Matthew Hale

It is impossible to enact ignorance by law, or to repeal by legislative authority the dictates of reason and the light of science.: Robert Hall

Laws will not be obeyed, harmony in society cannot be maintained, without virtue; virtue cannot subsist without religion.: Robert Hall

Ethics is the science of the laws which govern our actions as moral agents.: Sir William Hamilton

That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure of working, the same we term a law.: Richard Hooker

The subject or matter of laws in general is thus far forth constant, which matter is that for the ordering whereof laws were instituted.: Richard Hooker

Laws have been made upon special occasions; which occasions ceasing, laws of that kind do abrogate themselves.: Richard Hooker

How great soever the variety of municipal laws, it must be confessed that their chief outlines pretty regularly concur; because the purposes to which they tend are everywhere exactly similar.: David Hume

It is his [the legislator’s] best policy to comply with the common bent of mankind, and give it all the improvements of which it is susceptible.: David Hume

Law is the science in which the greatest powers of the understanding are applied to the greatest number of facts.: Dr. Samuel Johnson

The laws are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labours under.: Walter Savage Landor

There is a law of nature, as intelligible to a rational creature and studier of that law, as the positive laws of commonwealths.: John Locke

Civil law and history are studies which a gentleman should not barely touch at, but constantly dwell upon.: John Locke

Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.: Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay

The law of England has been chiefly formed out of the simple principles of natural justice by a long series of judicial decisions.: Sir James Mackintosh

Some are allured to law, not on the contemplation of equity, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.: John Milton

All beings have their laws; the Deity has his laws, the material world has its laws, superior intelligences have their laws, the beasts have their laws, and man has his laws.: Montesquieu

The first maxim of a free state is, that the laws be made by one set of men and administered by another: in other words, that the legislative and judicial characters be kept separate.: William Paley

Before the invention of laws, private affections in supreme rulers made their own fancies both their treasurers and hangmen, weighing in this balance good and evil.: Sir Walter Raleigh

The common law of England is said to abhor perpetuities; and they are accordingly more restricted there than in any other restricted monarchy.: Adam Smith

All law that a man is obliged by is reducible to the law of nature, the positive law of God in his word, and the law of man enacted by the civil power.: Robert South

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people to whom they are meant, and not to be imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.: Edmund Spenser

Two things speak much of the wisdom of a nation; good laws and a prudent management of them.: Edward Stillingfleet

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.: Jonathan Swift

A good law without execution is like an unperformed promise.: Jeremy Taylor

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