He loved her and was tender of her, but his word was law, and in all matters he was dictator, lawmaker, and judge, and from his decisions there was no appeal.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Now, we can have no more conception of law outside of a lawmaker, than we can have of an agent without a principal or an agency.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Lycurgus by prohibiting gold and silver in Sparta, and making iron, spoiled by the fire, the only currency, did not by these measures discharge them from minding their household affairs, but cutting off luxury, the corruption and tumor of riches, he provided there should be an abundant supply of all necessary and useful things for all persons, as much as any other lawmaker ever did; being more apprehensive of a poor, needy, and indigent member of a community, than of the rich and haughty.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh