Common Law Relationships

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or law:

“Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)