Raphael Lemkin Quotes

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

Bad facts make bad law.

The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

The man-made laws have been made by men who have not perceived the final goal towards which they are making. And that is why it is so important to insist upon the final thing first, and then all the regulations, all the disciplines, will follow.

Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.

They that make laws must not break them.

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

Law is the rudder of the ship of state.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Law is largely crystallized custom.

The lawyers want to govern us by the common law of England. Trust me for it, common sense is a much safer guide for us.

Law is not a science, but is essentially empirical.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

How a constitution is written can sometimes matter almost as much as what it contains.

The unchanging character of law is the only basis on which continuous action can rest. Without it man would be but as the traveler over endless morasses; the builder on quicksands; the mariner without compass or rudder, driven successively whithersoever changing winds may blow

I'm a big fan of the rule of law.

People are unwilling to enforce the laws on the books. Instead, they make more laws. Why can't we get this right?

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.

We are a country of laws.

We are nothing but by the law.