“In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.”
Earl Warren
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
Frederic Bastiat
“The more laws, the less justice.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him”
John Marshall
“People must help one another; it is nature's law.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.”
Immanuel Kant
“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”
