Law Quotes

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.

[Gresham's Law]: Bad money drives out good money.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

Respect for the law must be the basis for all legal action.

Bonar Law never led his Party. He was always looking over his shoulder to see if he was being followed.

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be...

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.

I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in America.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

So he's above the law because he's a celebrity or something. Just because you're Russell Crowe doesn't mean you can do whatever you like.

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

I wasn't the class clown, but I was starting to become the "crazy guy" at law school, which is the guy who is not so much "crazy" as "annoying."

Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law.

Our policemen and women are disrespected. We need law and order, but we need justice, too.

An attack on law enforcement is an attack on all Americans.

We need law and order in America.

The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

Moore's law is really about economics.

I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide for the mental, moral and social upbringing of their offspring.

Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

International law in its counter-hegemonic uses is very important in any domain where issues of legitimacy are significant, but is rarely able to have a corresponding behavioural impact.

Law and order comes from having respect for one another.

If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.