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There Is No Crueler Tyranny Than That Which Is Perpetrated Under The Shield Of Law And In The Name Of Justice.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the
shield of law and in the name of justice.
-- Montesquieu, 1742
Related:
Peace without justice is tyranny. -- William Allen White
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
-- Montesquieu...
The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution.
But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny....
Inadmissible: Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with
and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone....
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
-- Francis Baco...
Politics is a nice name for something which otherwise would be called the law of the jungle.
And to the liberty for which it stands, one nation, under God, with freedom and justice for all.
' And let's never forget it. -- George Bush, mangling the Pledge of Allegiance...
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
-- Charles-Louis Secondat Baron de Montesquieu...
Justice is incidental to law and order. HOOVER