Act II, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
“He that to nought aspires, doth nothing need;
Who breaks no law is subject to no king.”
The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (1613), Act IV, scene i.
“The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.”
Prohibitions del Roy, 12 Co. Rep. 63, quoting Henry de Bracton's treatise on the laws and customs of England. http://www.uniset.ca/other/cs4/77ER1342.html
Institutes of the Laws of England
“For human laws and laws divine ordain,
Who slays another, shall himself be slain.”
Che voglion tutti gli ordini e le leggi,
Che chi dà morte altrui debba esser morto.
Canto XXXVI, stanza 33 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“A just king must be the first to observe those laws that he has himself prescribed.”
Ogni giusto re primo servatore dee essere delle leggi fatte da lui.
Seventh Day, Tenth Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)
School of the Heart (1835), Lesson 6; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 430.
Source: The Status Civilization (1960), Chapter 15 (p. 65)
“Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.”
As quoted in Plato's Gorgias, 484b.
“What is the law?—Who are the law makers?”
The law is a great scheme of rules intended to preserve the power of government, secure the wealth of the landowner, the priest, and the capitalist, but never to secure his produce to the labourer.—The law-maker is never a labourer, and has no natural right to any wealth.—He takes no notice of the natural right of property.—Manifold miseries which result from his appropriating the produce of labour, and from the legal right of property being in opposition to the natural.
p. 44
The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832)
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 19
