Christopher Darden Quotes

I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives.

I'm trying to demystify the whole process. Make it simple, make it palatable. I want people to have respect for the law, and I want to educate people on the basics of the law.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

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.

There is no presumption in this country that every person knows the law: it would be contrary to common sense and reason if it were so.

Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.

The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law.

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

I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law.

The Constitution is not the only way we preserve rights in America. We have the common law and political action.

The respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.

A large part of our cultural confusion lies with the Supreme Court.

Legal fear affects the ordinary choices of Americans all day long.

They had to make their own laws in accordance with the necessities of time, and circumstances, the state of affairs, and the experience of judges.

There is not, in the whole compass of human affairs, so noble a spectacle as that which is displayed in the progress of jurisprudence; where we may contemplate the cautious and unwearied exertion of a succession of wise men, through a long course of ages, withdrawing every case, as it arises, from the dangerous power of discretion, and subjecting it to inflexible rules.

… law as it exists in the modern community may be conveniently, although perhaps not comprehensively, defined as the sum total of all those rules of conduct for which there is state sanction.

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.