“We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.” LawDesirePerfectLibertyBalanceFaultsSaintNeighborDeniedStrictStrict Laws Author:Thomas a Kempis
“Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.” HumansLawChoicesForceBreakEffectsCrimeFaultsExcuseRefugeBreak ThroughFrailtyHuman Frailties Author:Blaise Pascal
“Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault.” YearsMayLawCoursesCasesPeriodsConstitutionCourtFaultsDecadesReformAmendmentsMinimumJudicialMinimum WageConstitutional AmendmentsGestationGestation Period Author:Robert H. Jackson
“Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it. The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.” WayWellsGovernmentMightLawLeaderWorstVictoryFaultsGermanyAlliesOpposing Author:Silvio Berlusconi