Law Purpose Quotes

The law has no claim to human respect; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

Law has always served the purpose of condensing and defining the moral wishes and expectations of the community.

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.

Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose - that it may violate property instead of protecting it - then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.

The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its purpose is to protect persons and property.... If you exceed this proper limit -- if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, or artistic -- you will then be lost in uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it on you.

Every law of this country, state or national, should have for its ultimate purpose getting one man in love with one woman and in a home owned by them, and every law that can be made to secure that home and protect the wife and the mother should be enacted; otherwise this civilization cannot live.

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.