In times of war, the law falls silent.Silent enim leges inter arma

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.

Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong