
Diary (14 February 1879)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Source: What is Property? (1840), Ch. I
Diary (14 February 1879)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Nothing Will Hold Back Our Struggle for Liberation (1979)
1920s, Law and Order (1920)
March 24, 1966, page 216.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
Trial of John Vint and others (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 640.
The Second Part, Chapter 30: Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative.
Leviathan (1651)
Context: The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was trusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people, to which he is obliged by the law of nature, and to render an account thereof to God, the Author of that law, and to none but Him. But by safety here is not meant a bare preservation, but also all other contentments of life, which every man by lawful industry, without danger or hurt to the Commonwealth, shall acquire to himself.
And this is intended should be done, not by care applied to individuals, further than their protection from injuries when they shall complain; but by a general providence, contained in public instruction, both of doctrine and example; and in the making and executing of good laws to which individual persons may apply their own cases.
Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter XIX, Modern Civil Procedure, p. 360
We boast of the freedom enjoyed by our people above all other peoples. But it is difficult to reconcile that boast with a state of the law which, practically, puts the brand of servitude and degradation upon a large class of our fellow-citizens, our equals before the law. The thin disguise of "equal" accommodations for passengers in railroad coaches will not mislead anyone, nor atone for the wrong this day done.
1890s, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)