The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it

For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under the law

You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be disabled:) for the labors of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.