The Law Quotes

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.

If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

Congress in the immigration law gives the president the power to restrict or suspend the entry of people he may deem appropriate.

It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

There was nothing wrong - and everything right - with analyzing a law that establishes boundaries on interrogation in the war on terrorism.

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

Pretty fortunate that with the exception of two months when I was 23, that I worked in a law office pushing paper around. I was always able to eke out a living somehow. So I'm blessed.

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.

The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.

Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger" is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

It was all about hate. There should be laws. We're there laws? Can you legislate against hatred?

The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.

If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.

Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.