The Law Quotes

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying.

In politics, purity is the enemy of victory.

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.

Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

So many laws argues so many sins.

The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame.

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

Mental and spiritual laws are so powerful that they can be used to multiply, neutralize, or even reverse natural laws!

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.

Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.

Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.

Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

Love knoweth no laws.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.

The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty!

Bans are laws for the stupid.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Stop it now and take control. Write this on a card and pin it up where you can see it... MY THOUGHTS CONTROL MY LIFE!

The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.