Robert Atkyns (judge) (1621–1710) Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords
11 How. St. Tr. 1206.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)
“Time stands with impartial law.”
Book III, line 310.
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William Quan Judge (1851–1896) American occult writer
The Ocean of Theosophy by William Q. Judge (1893), Chapter 11, Karma
“Just men, by whom impartial laws were given;
And saints who taught and led the way to heaven.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) English poet and man of letters
On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 41. The work was an epitath for Tickell's friend and employer, Joseph Addison.
Samuel Adams (1722–1803) American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher
The Rights of the Colonists (1772)
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 3, p. 681
“Law stands mute in the midst of arms.”
Silent enim leges inter arma.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Pro Milone
Pro Milone, Chapter IV, section 11. Often paraphrased as Inter arma enim silent leges.
Variant translations:
In a time of war, the law falls silent.
Laws are silent in time of war.
John Paul Stevens (1920–2019) Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Dissenting, Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000).
Context: Time will one day heal the wound to that confidence that will be inflicted by today's decision. One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1820–1894) American theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 267.
“Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.”
Clayton M. Christensen (1952–2020) Mormon academic
“"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.”
Source: The Suppliants, line 707; alternately reported with "Honour thy father and thy mother" in place of "Reverence for parents", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)