Law Quotes

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the

A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.

If you want to be happy, you will be.

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

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.

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.

The market and its inescapable law are supreme.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.

How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?" "We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.

In most civil law systems there are no dissents. There is a single opinion for the court: it is unanimous; it is highly stylized; you can't tell which judge wrote it.