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  • “Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge. ”
    James Wilson , Lectures on Law · View
  • “The Bible is the best of all books... and should be read and practiced in every school in the land. ”
    John Jay , Letter to Peter Augustus Jay · View
  • “Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine. ”
    James Wilson , Lectures on Law · View
  • “The law of Christ is the law of liberty. ”
    William Paca , Letter to Maryland Convention · View
  • “Law must serve liberty, not merely power. ”
    David Brearley , Judicial Philosophy (inferred) · View
  • “The more clearly we see the injustice of our sufferings, the more firmly we shall oppose them. ”
    John Dickinson , Letter from a Farmer No. 7 · View
  • “A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle of all free governments. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Federalist Papers No. 78 · View
  • “Liberty is not the right to do as we please, but the right to do as we ought. ”
    John Adams , Letter to John Quincy Adams · View
  • “The law... must be reconciled with justice. ”
    John Marshall , Private Correspondence · View
  • “The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written ... by the hand of the divinity itself. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , The Farmer Refuted · View
  • “Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 51 · View
  • “Without virtue, there can be no liberty. ”
    James Wilson , Lectures on Law · View
  • “Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! ... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be. ”
    John Adams , Diary and Autobiography of John Adams · View
  • “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes... they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ”
    John Adams , Argument in Defense of British Soldiers · View