You May Also Like / View all maxioms
 The United States was founded
by the violent overthrow
of a violently founded throne.  
 The United States was founded
by the violent overthrow
of a violently founded throne. 
 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it 
be not changed, according to the law read more 
 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it 
be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, 
which altereth not. 
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
 Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on 
earth, that I think they will read more 
 Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on 
earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes 
hereafter, some of them in hell. 
 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to 
this word, it is because there read more 
 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to 
this word, it is because there is no light in them. 
 I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an 
whole people.  
 I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an 
whole people. 
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a 
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every read more 
 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a 
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin 
which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the 
race that is set before us,
 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for 
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the 
same, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.