Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.
Lysander Spooner
Related If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do no... LYSANDER SPOONER Teachers are being forced to take a stand against an unjust law. It's this government that intervene... JINNY SIMS The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to b... AYN RAND An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the pe... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the pe... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly ... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly ... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him... KARL RAHNER On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual w... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life a... THURGOOD MARSHALL Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted ... ADAM SMITH The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right ... STOCKWELL DAY There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercis... LYSANDER SPOONER Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the... CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS The power of the executive to cast a man into prison, ... without formulating any charge known to th... WINSTON CHURCHILL The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL allowing us to be persuaded by the argument of those who would deny that the genocide occurred at al... STEPHEN SMITH We deny all the allegations. The government wants to hurt us internationally. DAYA MASTER 'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can,
That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman." ELIZA COOK They deny the right of Israel to exist. They opposed the very peace negotiations. They are against t... DAVID FROST An Iraq at peace with its neighbors, an ally in the war on terror, with a representative government ... THOMAS TURNER In considering found that the papists did not deny him to be come in the flesh, nor we did not deny ... ANNE HUTCHINSON In considering found that the papists did not deny him to be come in the flesh, nor we did not deny ... ANNE HUTCHINSON Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again... JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob... JOHN GREEN Be wary of those who deny the existence of karma. They're usually wishful thinking. 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LYSANDER SPOONER While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to st... IAN HORNAK I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of... KHALED HOSSEINI The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because ... THOMAS CARLYLE It is an insult to all of us that he should try to deny that he was part of the system. LOVEMORE MADHUKU Deny God and you deny the world in which we all live. ANTHONY T. HINCKS To deny people the right to reach kids who are unreachable is wrong. ROSIE O'DONNELL Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it. PRIMO LEVI A statute that lets some wrongfully convicted individuals seek restitution but denies that right to ... ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I c... RAYMOND CHANDLER It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour... ROBERT KENNEDY Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The power of heart is much stronger than the power of mind to empower our life. ANUJ SOMANY No place of grace for those who avoid the face No time to rejoice for those who walk among nois... T.S. ELIOT For those who share my view that the Jews as a people have a right to self-determination, Zionism as... ANGELA MERKEL If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it. PAUL MARTIN This court will not deny the equal protection of the law to the unwashed, unshod, unkempt and uninhi... HERMAN WEINKRANTZ Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curr... PETER USTINOV Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers... ANUJ SOMANY Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t... CHANDRABABU V.S. Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo... CHANDRABABU V.S. Therefore, the government will launch an operation to enforce the law against the practice. INDUSTRY MINISTER FAHMI IDRIS We march on toward the realization of the American Dream. We are not diverted by those who would den... DONNA BRAZILE How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the trut... CURT WELDON We don't want this argument to be obscured by those who would suggest that anyone who is for more an... DAVID KEENE Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights ... AYN RAND I'd long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant ... JONATHAN KELLERMAN For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator... DWAIN K. WHITE SR. Science has proved there's nothing to the talk of ghosts and spirits, no proof anything like the sou... ANN AGUIRRE Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and ... CHRISTINA ENGELA In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our cr... CHARLES CALEB COLTON If they are in an audit situation, we can't confirm or deny it. The IRS looks at numerous market seg... GLORIA SUTTON The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with th... BRENNAN MANNING The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with th... KEVIN MAX Who can we claim to know God, and deny him by our actions. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA No one would deny the government the power it needs to protect us all. But when that power poses a t... DAVID KEENE Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, ca... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injust... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injust... HENRY DAVID THOREAU In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's far easier to deny an appeal if it's just a letter, or an email. It's always a roll of the dice... CARL BUCK Instead of going after the perpetrators of the massacre, the Uzbek government is trying to deny resp... HOLLY CARTNER Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. JOHN FOSTER DULLES Truth to me was dead, God had never lived, life was full of pain, and death was the end of life. As ... ALICIA BRITT CHOLE The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's... STEPHEN BAYLEY The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with the... BRENNAN MANNING All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object i... H.L. MENCKEN Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast G... ROBIN HAYES We officially deny that Mladic has been arrested. To our knowledge there is not even an operation on... FLORENCE HARTMANN I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be h... THOMAS JEFFERSON As New York's chief law enforcement officer, I have taken a hard line against those in state gov... ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Mr. Greenberg continues to deny the allegations made against him, and he and his legal team are prep... HOWARD OPINSKY The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with th... BRENNAN MANNING Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my... ROALD DAHL And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to. JOHN GREEN but there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer. JOHN GREEN El pasado es una historia lógica. Es el sentido de lo que sucedió. Pero como el futuro todavía no... 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