HBD USA

“Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere and not jus dare; to interpret law and not to make or give law.”

Francis Bacon

“If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny.”

William Blake

“Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”

Louis Brandeis

“[There is] no nobler motive for entering public life then the resolution not to be ruled by wicked men."

Cicero

”Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

H.G. Wells

”The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

George Washington

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”

Harry S. Truman

“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”

Tom Stoppard

“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”

Teddy Roosevelt

“A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over the long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government from the highest to the lowest are bound to obey it.”

Samuel F. Miller

“Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.”

John Locke

“The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.”

Barbara Jordan

“The Constitution … is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please.”

Thomas Jefferson

“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”

Thomas Jefferson

“We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different dreams.”

Jimmy Carter