Benjamin Tucker Quotes

Spanish legislation is full of the sternest laws, enacted in utter disregard of their contingent and ulterior consequences provided the immediate object in view can be effected.

The NSA has shown, time and time again, it will seize on any wiggle room in the law .

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

I say, break the law.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

During three decades' worth of sexual harassment allegations, Harvey Weinstein lined the pockets of Democrats to the tune of three quarters of a million dollars.

In my view, statutory ambiguities are less like dandelions on an unmowed lawn than they are like manufacturing defects in a modern automobile: they happen, but they are pretty rare, given the number of parts involved.

Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less.

This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

Well, maybe there are one or two things about the double jeopardy concept that are overlooked. I could be charged with violating my probation. I could be charged for illegal possession of a firearm or violating his civil rights if I did kill him. But when you're making a movie, there's only so much that you can do. I know that some people, while thoroughly enjoying it, have said, It's a little bit implausible. But it's such great fun.

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.