“There are laws for peace as well as war.”

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

The sun has not yet set for all time.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

No law is quite appropriate for all.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.

A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.

I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.

Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.

The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.