Famous quotes containing the words laws and/or ann:
“Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)