Quotes about la
law matter credit
Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws. William Lyon Mackenzie King
law attention firsts
One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left. William Matthews
law punishment arbitrary
The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law. William J. Brennan
law social social-change
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
law punishment people
One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution. Even the most vile murderer does not release the state from its obligation to respect dignity, for the state does not honor the victim by< emulating his murderer. Capital punishment's fatal flaw is that it treats people as objects to be toyed with and discarded. . . . One day the Court will outlaw the death penalty. Permanently.
land errors humanity
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. William Jennings Bryan
law needs lawyer
If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.
law old-testament new-testament
The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
landscape might tongue
Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. Virginia Woolf
law hong-kong contradiction
No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law. Wu Bangguo
land redwoods trespassing
This land is your land, this land is my land Woody Guthrie
land valleys ribbons
As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me.
land made
This land is made for you and me.
law profession
The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other. Woodrow Wilson
law community political
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.
lasts
Only peace between equals can last.
law practice political
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.
law reign opinion
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
law unjust unjust-laws
Unjust laws aren't laws at all. Saint Augustine
law grace sin
The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.
law unjust moral-responsibility
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
law land west
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis. Yasser Arafat
lasts scratches sand
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. Wislawa Szymborska
ladybugs killing butlers
When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it. Winston Churchill
lawyer fortune contact
I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own. Wilson Mizner
laughter laughing judging
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
laughter spring laughing
April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears. William Watson
land advice stuff
Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff. Will Rogers
law bills financial
We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.
laughter america long
All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.
law congress injured
When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.
law wish records
Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.
land trouble
The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore.