#law

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things. ↗

— Big Bill Broonzy

#cry #fact #fellow #forgotten #get

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#connected #dependent #each #explained #few

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. ↗

— Isambard K. Brunel

#bridges #conditions #construction #down #embarrassed

There is no law governing all things. ↗

— Giordano Bruno

#governing #law #things

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken? ↗

— Sitting Bull

#beat #broken #children #come #drunk

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#carry #case #challenge #concepts #cost

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#laws #sort #tyranny #worst

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#cloak #enormous #having #his #hitler

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law. ↗

— Jack Cade

#bishops #blame #found #gentlemen #guilty

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes. ↗

— Ada Cambridge

#deal #eyes #halt #hideous #justice