Law Quotes

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.

The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.

We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

The law of process says — leaders develop daily, not in a day.

Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.

In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.

Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.

I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.

America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by Congress and the laws enacted by state legislatures.

When you are unconditionally open and soft in your heart while your self empties and while your self fills, you live fulfilling the law of containment.

The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws.

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.

War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.

How do you prevent people from doing inappropriate things? We can write laws. But at the end of the day, I actually wonder what the board was doing.

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force.

As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions

No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

Christians are guilty of the notion that there was a time when people were required to live by the mosaic law, I just don't know that ever was the case.

Our reason is our law.

The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand

We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.

The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.

In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.

They that make laws must not break them.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.