"Law-makers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of law-makers, And say unto the sea, as Canute did, (Of course the sea will do as it is bid,) "This is the Sabbath—but there be no Breakers!" Seek London's Bishop, on some Sunday morn, And try him with your tenets to inoculate,— Abuse his ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... The Common Law is a product of growth rather than of legislation. No definite time can be assigned for its beginning, for at as early a period as (p. 168) there are reports of judicial decisions the existence of a body of law not emanating from law-makers was taken for granted. Long before the close of the Middle Ages the essentials of the Common Law had acquired not only unquestioned sanction but also thoroughgoing coherence and uniformity. Despite the greatly increased legislative activity ...
— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg
... every turn,' said brother Charles. 'Parents who never showed their love, complain of want of natural affection in their children; children who never showed their duty, complain of want of natural feeling in their parents; law-makers who find both so miserable that their affections have never had enough of life's sun to develop them, are loud in their moralisings over parents and children too, and cry that the very ties of nature are disregarded. Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... gave them the position of military dictators, would also place in his hands information of the army which would be priceless. The Confederate Congress sat behind closed doors. On the right footing in the Barton household he could put himself in possession of every scheme of the Southern law-makers from the ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon
... understood that he had to do that; for the Pope, in his "Motu Proprio" decree, has forbidden Catholics to bring a priest into court for any civil crime whatsoever; he has forbidden Catholic policemen to arrest, Catholic judges to try, and Catholic law-makers to make laws affecting any priest of the Church of Rome. And of course we know, upon the authority of a cardinal, that the Pope is "the sole, last, supreme judge of what is right and wrong." He has held that ...
— The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair
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