Gerry Spence Quotes

Law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol…

Oppression is the essence of power.

As men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

Only powerful people have liberty.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West

Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

The more laws, the less justice.

Might was the measure of right.