Quotation of Law (法律名言录)25

来源:百度文库 编辑:神马文学网 时间:2024/06/28 09:18:38
Instead of conceiving of society as something established for the defense of individual rights, fair contracts, and due process of law, we are invited to see it in terms of the biblical vision. This way of living, thinking, and acting where autonomy and related rights take priority has seriously jeopardized the meaning and values of all institutions in our society.
Detroit Archbishop Adam J. Maida, in a speech to Catholic judges including Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy, and O‘ConnorTo some lawyers all facts are created equal.
Felix Frankfurter (1882 - 1965)Be careful in revising those immigration laws of yours.We got careless with ours.
advice given to Herbert Humphrey by an American Indian from New MexicoThe consumer‘s side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.
Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966)Lawsuit n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil‘s DictionaryI don‘t believe man is woman‘s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
Shana AlexanderI know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son-in-law suffer in her dreams.
Ernest CoquelinThe [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.
Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president