“While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.” WarLawLostFailingStandardsClaimsResponsibleStructureProtectionCommandFighterConventionsUniformsInitialsTalibanObeyingPow Author:John Yoo
“At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.” GovernmentLawLyingLibertyPrinciplesSubjectsPositionCitizensFoundationDenyCommandCivil RightsOfficialsExceptionalCivil LibertiesGovernment OfficialsLaw Courts Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWritingFirstsCountryReasonGovernmentLawSpeakWishCausesPartyPayLibertyDegreesWorshipDoctrineCommandCandidatesAmendmentsCompellingFirst Amendment Author:Hugo Black
“The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.” HandsLawSilenceFateEternalLaysEndureSupremeCommandTheeIronSubmitDecree Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.” DoeLawHusbandCommandObedienceRememberedObeying Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton
“For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.” IfsMenShouldLongCountryGovernmentWould BeLawForcePowerfulDoubtGroupsJudgingCitizensSafeConstitutionCourtThreatNeighborCommandEntitledProminentUnrulyBoisterous Author:John F. Kennedy
“In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.” MenHeartKindMadeUseLawHeavenSinWifeLandSlaveIsraelWideCommandCraftsPriestsMakersWarmthBridesVigorousPiousImpartMonarchsPolygamyPromiscuousConcubines Author:John Dryden
“For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.” WellsLooksStatesLightLawSocialViewsModernOughtEmptyCommandSovereignSovereigntySocial ChangeRapidsPrecedentLooking To The Future Author:William Ernest Hocking
“Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion existing, a thing of the past, to establish full freedom for all. Anarchism means first and foremost freedom from all government.” MenFirstsMeanStatesGovernmentPastFormLawPrinciplesCommandCompulsionAnarchismState Government Book:The Social Monster: A Paper on Communism and Anarchism Source: The Social Monster: A Paper on Communism and Anarchism
“The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.” MenBodyLawDesireSocialVirtueCrimeProduceCommandCivilizedCustomsLegislatorsSavagery Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
“No one statement wrested from its context is a sufficient warrant for actions that plainly controvert other commands. How excellent a thing it would be if the whole Church of Christ had learned that no law of life may be based upon an isolated text. Every false teacher who has divided the Church, has had, "it is written" on which to hang his doctrine.” IfsMayWholeWould BeActionLawChristChurchTeacherWrittenStatementsDoctrineCommandExcellentSufficientDividedIsolatedWarrantsLaws Of LifeChurch Of Christ Author:G. Campbell Morgan
“Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.” LawAtheismTypeIsraelPositive AtheismFamiliarCommandSavagesDeitiesTaboo Author:James G. Frazer
“Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.” MayHardSeemsLawVoiceVirtueCommandReputationGuardianDefence Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks