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Edward Livingston Quotes Page 1 of 1Edward Livingston May 26, 1764 - May 23, 1836 Nationality: American Category: Judge Subcategory: American Judge
| No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses. | By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime. | It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action. |
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