Law

“The Way of the Former Kings fixes and lays down what men must necessarily do and what they should not do. This is called yi.”

“Patents give you the right to sue, they don’t give you the money to sue.”

“No cause is more worthy than the cause of human rights. Human rights are more than legal concepts; they are the essence of man. They are what make man human.”

“方以立法，法以制宜。”

“The whole world, which is in a sense a commonwealth, has the power to enact laws which are just and convenient to all men; and these make up the law of nations.”

“No aborigine can feel absolutely free and equal to other Australians whilst the Commonwealth Constitution contains the two clauses which exclude him from the Census . . . and from Commonwealth laws.”

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”

“The establishment of local courts and mining boards has been the practical result of experience, obtained in the saddest and most costly way, in which it can ever be purchased by a people.”

“LGBTQI rights are human rights.”

“Whoever submits to our Prophet Muḥammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, and believes in him and affirms what he brought of sharia, externally and internally, in belief and in practice, he is then a Muslim, a believer.”

“As oft as we meet, I like what the law forbiddeth,”

“No se va a romper España. No se va a romper la Constitución. Aquí lo que se va a romper es el bloqueo al Gobierno progresista democráticamente elegido por los españoles.”

“We go into cities where we’re legal. We operate where we’re legal.”

“It is with literature as with law or empire — an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.”