Quotes about Law

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.

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.

Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.

You cannot make men good by law.

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

This feature of Israelite law stands in sharp contrast to many ancient law codes where certain thefts by certain people were punishable by death. Indeed, it contrasts with British law until fairly recent times (people were hanged for sheep-stealing in Britain until the nineteenth century). On the other hand, as mentioned above, theft of a person for gain (kidnapping) was a capital offence in Israel (21:16; Deut. 24:7). Stealing a human life was different from stealing property.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?