The Law Quotes

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.

Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.

It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.

The old law permitted abortion to save one life when two would otherwise die. The new law permits abortion to take one life when two would otherwise live.

Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

It is often the case that laws must change before fears about change dissipate.

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.

As love and joy flood our streets today, it is hard to imagine how anyone could deny the full protection of our laws to any of our fellow Americans - but there are those who would.

America and Mexico are both a nation of immigrants and we are a nation of laws and we can act accordingly.

I think we have to take a look at corporate law. We have to take a look at the incentives that we can perhaps use to encourage more longer term.

I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color - to exercise their rights.

Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law of America.

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country [America].

If we repeal [ Barack Obama's health care law] as Donald [Trump] has proposed, all of those benefits I have mentioned are lost to everybody...and then we will have to start all over again.

I think we're all safer when the police respect the communities they're supposed to serve, and the communities respect the law.

Here at home, for goodness's sakes, we have to finally pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in the United States of America.

Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

Fashion is fortunately no law but to its devotees.

The law of heaven is love.

Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.