These are some of the quotes I got from cases. We were once told: "When you study the Law you cease to be a lay man" Nevertheless, these apply even to lay people.
1. What is to be avoided is an interpretation that "may work injustice rather than promote justice." -Borromeo vs. CA
2. Who did not need to be told, nevertheless inquired:
“Didst thou eat of the forbidden fruit?”—thereby giving him a chance to be heard.
3. If all are to be equal before the law, all must be approximately equal in intelligence.-Rubi vs. Prov. Board of Mindoro
4. what is expressed puts an end to that which is implied. Expressium facit cessare tacitum.- Lung center vs. Quezon City
5. The closed mind has no place in the open society- ynot vs. IAC
6. The strength of democracy lies not in the rights it guarantees but in the courage of the people to invoke them whenever they are ignored or violated. Rights are but weapons on the wall if, like expensive tapestry, all they do is embellish and impress. Rights, as weapons, must be a promise of protection. They become truly meaningful, and fulfill the role assigned to them in the free society, if they are kept bright and sharp with use by those who are not afraid to assert them.- ynot vs. IAC
7. Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.--Justice Robert A. Jackson, quoted in Ang ladlad
8. One unavoidable consequence of everyone having the freedom to choose is that others may make different choices – choices we would not make for ourselves, choices we may disapprove of, even choices that may shock or offend or anger us. However, choices are not to be legally prohibited merely because they are different, and the right to disagree and debate about important questions of public policy is a core value protected by our Bill of Rights. Indeed, our democracy is built on genuine recognition of, and respect for, diversity and difference in opinion.---Ang ladlad (forgot who said it)
9. the enforcement of no statute is of sufficient importance to justify indifference to the basic principles of government. -People vs. Aruta search and seizure
10. it is less evil that some criminals escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.- Oliver Wendell Holmes
11. Between the security of the State and its due preservation, on the one hand, and the constitutionally-guaranteed right of an individual, on the other hand, which should be held to prevail? There is no choice to my mind not for any other reason than because there is, in the first place, utterly no need to make a choice. The two are not incompatible; neither are they necessarily opposed to each other. Both can be preserved; indeed, the vitality of one is the strength of the other.
Assoc. justice vitug- Aniag v. Comelec, 237 SCRA 424
12. We cannot both be free and ignorant –thomas Jefferson
13. The interest of society and the maintenance of good government demand a full discussion of public affairs. Complete liberty to comment on the conduct of public men is a scalpel in the case of free speech. The sharp incision of its probe relieves the abscesses of officialdom. Men in public life may suffer under a hostile and unjust accusation; the wound can be assuaged with the balm of clear conscience.
-Justice Malcom, US vs. Bustos
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