The Law Quotes

Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death.

The law of Love is that you are Love, and that as you give Love to others you teach yourself what you are.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!

I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.

American law needs to reflect gods law.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

No law is an issue until someone tries to enforce it.

We need people who will strictly interpret the law and not be promoting an agenda, as is the danger right now with some members of the Supreme Court.

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.

One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.

The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all.

Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts which may cause pain in the future or are offensive to men.

The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.

Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate.

The first law of social communication is whenever you meet anyone, exalt him or her.

The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.

If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.

Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held everything together.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

Is it against the law for me to know it?

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

Theory states that Allahs law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.

... law is a substitute for love.

Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.