The Law Quotes

I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

The angle of entry of the ball equals the angle of release. You cannot deny the laws of science.

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

Law dies, books never.

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same.

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.

A Locrian, who proposed any new law, stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.

The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.

It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point.

It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.

Will a nominee embrace and uphold the essential meaning of the four words inscribed above the entrance of the Supreme Court building: Equal justice under law?

Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.

I had the privilege of chairing Judge Samuel Alito confirmation hearing in 1990. And at that time, he had practiced law for 14 years, but only represented one client, the United States government.

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.

One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.

Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the implementation of systems and standards.

What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.

Hold ever before you the vision of the new heaven and new earth.

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.