Top 12 Jurisprudence Quotes

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

Light, Law, Jurisprudence

The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England epilogue (1628)

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

Herbert Read

Principles, Jurisprudence, Analogies

Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

Henry James Sumner Maine

Jurisprudence, Institutions, Humans

Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.14, Beard Books

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

Herbert Read

Law, Jurisprudence, Literature

Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

William Shakespeare

Silence, Jurisprudence, Innocence

William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.282

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Doubt, Liberty, Jurisprudence

Planned Parenthood v. Casey (joint opinion) (1992). Coauthored with Anthony M. Kennedy and David H. Souter.

Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.

Joseph Sobran

Mean, Games, Jurisprudence

By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid civilian casualties, and end combat operations as soon as possible. These are provisions recognized by almost all authorities on international jurisprudence.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

Party, Trying, Jurisprudence

Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence.

Thomas Jefferson

Mean, Law, Jurisprudence

Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.218, Penguin

Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence.

Gerolamo Cardano

Art, Suffering, Jurisprudence

There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."

Edmund Burke

Party, Law, Jurisprudence

Edmund Burke's speech on the impeachment of Warren Hastings, May 30, 1794.