Famous Quotes & Sayings

William McKinley

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

William J. Clinton

Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.

William J. Clinton

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

William James

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.

William Gaddis

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

William Gilmore Simms

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

William Gilmore Simms

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

William Gibson

A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.

Will Durant

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

Sarah Palin

We should create law based on the God of the Bible,

Sara Bareilles

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

Samuel Rogers

That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.

Wilbur Smith

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

Saint Augustine

The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

Saint Augustine

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

Saint Augustine

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

Saint Augustine

The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

Saint Augustine

The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.

Saint Augustine

The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.

Saint Augustine

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

Saint Augustine

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

Saint Augustine

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Yasser Arafat

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.

Wilson Mizner

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Will Rogers

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.

Will Rogers

When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.

Will Rogers

Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.

Will Rogers

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.

Rudyard Kipling

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

W. Clement Stone

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

W. Clement Stone

You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

Zach Braff

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