“No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs”
which alas! is all too inadequate
The Law (1850)
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French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and… 1801–1850Related quotes
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
1910s, Address to Congress: Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances (1918)
Alan Keyes (1950) American politician
Speech at Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, Utah, September 24, 2002. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/02_09_24utah.htm. <br class="br">2002
Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) German mathematician and physicist
as quoted by Dennis Overbye, Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance (2001)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, Quarantine Speech (1937)
Context: Those who cherish their freedom and recognize and respect the equal right of their neighbors to be free and live in peace must work together for the triumph of law and moral principles in order that peace, justice, and confidence may prevail in the world. There must be a return to a belief in the pledged word, in the value of a signed treaty. There must be recognition of the fact that national morality is as vital as private morality.
“Principle I : Legal rights are presumptive rights.”
William Ernest Hocking (1873–1966) American philosopher
Source: Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926), Ch. VI : Presumptive Rights, p. 58.
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714–1780) French academic
The Logic of Condillac (trans. Joseph Neef, 1809), "Of the Method of Thinking", p. 3.
Simón Bolívar (1783–1830) Venezuelan military and political leader, South American libertador
Final proclamation to the people of Colombia (8 December 1830), as quoted in Man of Glory : Simón Bolívar (1939) by Thomas Rourke
Variant translations: If my death contributes to the end of the parties and the consolidation of the Union, I shall go quietly to my grave.
Colombians! my last wishes are for the welfare of the fatherland. If my death contributes to the cessation of party strife, and to the consolidation of the Union, I shall descend in peace to the grave.
For my enemies I have only forgiveness. If my death shall contribute to the cessation of factions and the consolidation of the Union, I can go tranquilly to my grave.
