The Law Quotes

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

Reason is the Soul of the Law.

The law is the public conscience.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public.

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right.

Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.

... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

I think she [Michelle Obama] is reluctant to date someone she's above at work. It's 1989, she's at a law firm, surrounded by mostly white men, and she has to prove herself every day.

If I'm expected to keep your messages, and everybody else's, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these.

Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

I think you should live your moral values, but the last thing, the very last thing, the government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices.

I'm not going to change my religious practice to get one vote, but I know how to take an oath and uphold the law, and if you elect me I will uphold the law.

We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

Saudi Arabian police arrested seven teenage boys for leering at women. In accordance with Saudi law, the boys will be whipped and the women will be stoned to death.

I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.

It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.

There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.

They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.