top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Trust quotes
"Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds."
"God punishes people, who belittle Him with their complaints."
"Hold fast to God, do not give up and He will fulfill His Word concerning you, for He is faithful who has promised."
"The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture."
Explore more quotes by Henry James Sumner Maine
"The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code."
"The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one."
"The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people."
"The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing."
"The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another."
"It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world."
"The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil."
"When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development."
"The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction."
bottom of page