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Law Quotes - Page 9

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

Robert Boyle (2000). “The Works of Robert Boyle: Publications of 1674 - 6”

A government of laws, and not of men.

"Novanglus Papers" no. 7 (1774). Almost certainly derived from James Harrington, but Adams's use of the phrase gave it wide circulation in the United States. He also used "government of laws, and not of men" in the Declaration of Rights drafted for the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780. See Cox 1; Gerald Ford 3; James Harrington 1

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.71

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

"The Great Quotations". Book by George Seldes, p. 664, 1960.

Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.

Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.175

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Letter to Horatio Gates, 23 March 1776