Law Quotes

State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws.

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

Law without penalty is only advise.

I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal.

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.

Law is a bottomless pit.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

You can have, be or do, anything you want.