“Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of military exigency, inter arma silent leges. Whatever the general merits of the view that war silences law or modulates its voice, that view has no place in the interpretation and application of a Constitution designed precisely to confront war and, in a manner that accords with democratic principles, to accommodate it.” ThinkingWayGivingWarLawVoiceViewsSilenceLibertyPrinciplesSecurityMilitaryConstitutionCrisisDemocraticSilentExtremesInevitableMeritInterpretationApplicationAccordAccommodate Book:Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents Source: Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents
“I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.” LawOrderFoundWealthRevolutionBirthDestructionChaosAlternativesMeritAnarchyRegimesMonarchyFeudalismDecrepit Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.” PeopleWantYearsLastsLawImpossibleWorstConcernPrisonDemocraticRateMeritProvenAmbiguityAmbiguousCommonwealthIncarcerationDemocratic Leadership Author:Bill Vaughan
“The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill you neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism.” LittlesWarFormLawHateNationsViewsVirtueMoralityPoint Of ViewNeighborCriminalsImpulsePropagandaMeritPatrioticAllowingCowardiceHeroismAggressionSpontaneousOutletsCriminal Law Author:Bertrand Russell