Law Quotes

Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie.

Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.

"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.

Equal Justice Under The Law. That is a great goal. But that goal has not been realized.

When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

A bride who is bullied by her mother-in-law will herself become a bad mother-in-law.

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.

I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

At some point or another, our boundaries run into the boundaries of the exterior reality. Like we run into laws and other things that we don't own or don't have control over.

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.

Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

Sharia is derived from Arabic, and it means an "oasis." In the desert, man needs the oasis to survive. Sharia is not like any other religion or law, because Sharia is an entire system of life.

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.

The market and its inescapable law are supreme.

It confirms my idea that you also need more liberal gun laws. Guns lead to a polite society, as we like to say in the United States. And I think that all of western Canada would agree with me.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.

His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.