Law Quotes

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

Immune system will heal itself.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.

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

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

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.

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

This is the great Secret of life.

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans.

A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

Every intention sets energy into motion Whether you are conscious of it or not.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die.

The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

NOW is the most abundant moment of your life.

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.

I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.