
“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 386.
Source: Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975), P. 203.
“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 386.
“The rule of law is not an exception to rule by fear; it is the fulfillment of rule by fear.”
Fear: The History of a Political Idea
"In Defense of Self-defense" I (June 20, 1967)
To Die For The People
2018, Report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council
"Words of a Rebel"; as quoted in The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues (1992) by Charles Bufe, p. 26
“This is not the “rule of law”…it is the “rule of law enforcement.””
The Guardian, "Barrett Brown statement: 'This is not the rule of law, it is the rule of law enforcement'" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/22/barrett-brown-hacking-sentencing-full-statement-text, 22 January 2015.
"Parisian Morals and Manners", published in The Edinburgh Review (1843)
Smith might have been thinking of the final words of Swift's "Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation": "It is not a Fault in Company to talk much; but to continue it long, is certainly one; for, if the Majority of those who are got together be naturally silent or cautious, the Conversation will flag, unless it be often renewed by one among them, who can start new Subjects, provided he doth not dwell upon them, but leaveth Room for Answers and Replies".