Law Quotes
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
Positive words can bend your world in your favor.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.
I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.
If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Those who live by God's law will walk through the rough roads of life shielded by God's love and faithfulness. Psalm 25:10.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...
We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Confound the subtlety of lawyers with the subtlety of the law.
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
