The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the "two... volumes of common law" that every man carried strapped to his thighs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer.... Law cannot save us from ourselves.... We have to go out and try to a...ccomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let judgment and personal conviction be important again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the com...munity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vas...t power that the law gives us over them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards the ...corn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taft represented a victory for everything that was least progressive in Roosevelt. The great love which bound the two men, as it h...as been described touchingly and at length by dozens of their friends and aides, contained scarcely a glimmer of common interest relating to reform. It had to do with social standing, political advancement, favors asked and favors given.... The essence of Roosevelt's conservatism was his dependence on party politics; of Taft's his adherence to the law. Roosevelt, that is to say, was a politician; his friend was a lawyer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be Unjust. The notions of Right and Wrong, J...ustice and Injustice have there no place. Where there is no common Power, there is no Law; where no Law, no Injustice. Force, and Fraud, are in war the two Cardinal virtues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Avrum was there in the audience, I believe, in Berkeley on the afternoon in 1941 when, in conformity with the law subsequently enu...nciated by Murphy, what could go wrong, epistemologically, did. G.E. Moore was delivering the Howison Lecture in Wheeler Auditorium, which had a handsome coffered ceiling inset with glass panels. Giving a local angle to his defence of common sense, Moore declared that among the things he knew there and then was that light from the sun was streaming through the roof. Most in the audience were aware, however, that the glass panels were diffusers for electrical illumination; the roof of the building was solid and opaque. Someone had the temerity to point this out to Moore in the question period. He responded, "Oh dear me!" and went on to the next question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »