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"No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest."
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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
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"The laws of men are not infallible."
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"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."
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"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
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"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."
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"When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!"
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"The law is logical and is based on common sense. The trick was to argue the law in favor of your particular point of view without sounding biased. It was kind of like a magic trick: the best illusionist being the one who can best manipulate the logic to his or her advantage, all the while giving the illusion of impartiality."
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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
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"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."
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"HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There arefour kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, andpraiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slainwhether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is foradvantage of the lawyers."
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"The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy."
Governance
"That is the best Government, which best provides for war."
War
"No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest."
Law
"There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices."
Man
"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes."
Commonsense
"Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty."
Justice
"The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature."
Nature
"'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force."
Force
"A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast."
People
"The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion."
Nation
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