Practical Quotations » Law

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:49:24 +0000

A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.

Fisher Ames

Fisher Ames — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:44:02 +0000

Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart…

Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:24:39 +0000

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:10:38 +0000

The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application – laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:54:10 +0000

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark.

John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:30:44 +0000

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:12:26 +0000

Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopia – what a Paradise would this region be!