Law Quotes

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

In times of war, the law falls silent.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed necessary.

To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.

When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.

I will leave the U.S Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled

There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure that they're much more rigorous.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.

Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam and the profit lived.

Well, enforcement theater is OK if it's reality theater. In other words, obviously, you want to make it clear, you want to make people see that the law is being enforced.

The Statist has constructed a Rube Goldberg array of laws and policies that have institutionalized his objectives. His success breeds confidence in the limitlessness of his endeavors.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

I don't think that any law enforcement got in trouble for the event in Eugene where police sprayed the tree-sitters who were protesting the cutting of the trees for the parking garage.

The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.

Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.