Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

Reason is the Soul of the Law.

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

Law is the ultimate science.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.

Reason is the life of the law.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason....

Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

The Law ... is perfection of reason.

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases. It's the law.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

It is the merit of the common law that it decides the case first and determines the principles afterward.

All men must operate under one general law.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.