The Law Quotes

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.

Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.

Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.

Life's real victories must be shared.

Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.

And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.

The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal.

Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.

Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will.

When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.

I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

There are laws about personal protection so it's rare to see a politician criticized. Normally, according to the law, there's a judicial problem with calling people by their real names.

There ought to be a law against necessity.

There's a lot of gray area in the law. Who can say, without a doubt, that I was in the wrong?

I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.