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 LAW

{{Hoyt quote | num = 2 | text = Silent enim leges inter anna. For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms. Cicero—Pro MiUme. IV. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cesar) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. Grover Cleveland—Message. March 1, 1886. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign. Sir Edward Coke—Debate in the Commons. May 17, 1628'. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. * * * The law which is perfection of reason. Sir Edward Coke—First Institute. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Powell) The gladsome light of jurisprudence. Sra Edward Coke—First Institute. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = According to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Daniel. VI. 8. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare. Lord Denman—In his Judgment in CConnell vs. the Queen. II. C. and F., 351. Sept. 4, | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—how not to DO IT. | author = Dickens | work = Little Dorrit. | place = Pt. I. Ch. X. | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = "If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is a ass, a idiot." | author = Dickens | work = Oliver Twist. | place = Ch. II. | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = If it's near dinner time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury have retired and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else except two men who ought to have dined at three, and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch: "Well, gentlemen, what do we say? Plaintiff, defendant, gentlemen? I rather think so far as I am concerned, gentlemen—I say I rather think—but don't let that influence you-—I rather think the plaintiff's the man." Upon this two or three other men are sure to say they think so too—as of course they do; and then they get on very unanimously and comfortably. | author = Dickens | work = Pickwick Papers. | place = Vol.II. Ch. VI. | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I know'd what 'ud come o' this here mode o' doin' business. Oh, Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't thereaalleybi! | author = Dickens | work = Pickwick Papers. | place = Vol.II. Ch. VI. | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. S. J. Field—When advised to arm himself. California. (1889) | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them. Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with. Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Reciprocal Duties of State and Subject. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. Gibbon—The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch.XIV. Vol.1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Es erben sich Gesetz und Rechte Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort. All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. Goethe—Faust. I. 4. 449. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. Goldsmith-—The Traveller. L. 386. Same in Vicar of Wakefield. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. U. S. Grant—Inaugural Address. March 4, 1869. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A cloud of witnesses. Hebrews. XII. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Quid leges sine moribus Vanse proficiunt? Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immorality? Horace—Carmina. III. 24. 35. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = To the law and to the testimony. Isaiahj VIII. 20. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The law is the last result of human wisdom acting 'upon human experience for the benefit of the public. . Samuel Johnson. Johnsoniana. Piozzi's Anecdotes, 58. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. The verdict acquits the raven, but condemns the dove. Juvenal—Satires. II. 63. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 431 }}