Quotes about law
law raised
Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet. Zane Grey
law possibility property
Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
law noble purpose
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. William H. Seward
law constitution black-power
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
law southern maintenance
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.
law would-be answers
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
law justice liberty
The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree their happiness.
law guilty headlines
Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines? William Hague
law innocence knows
Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence. William Davenant
law easier harder
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong. William E. Gladstone
law justice fairness
Justice delayed is justice denied.
law public-opinion behinds
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Wendell Phillips
law void should
Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
law justice competition
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. Wendell Berry
law mind association
Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists. Walter Pater
law justice sides
NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail. Xavier Becerra
law important ethics
Ethics are more important than laws. Wynton Marsalis
law tumbling answers
The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed. William O. Douglas
law silence lips
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.
law common-sense common
Common sense often makes a good law.
law promise demand
And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you. William P. Young
law independence trying
those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control
law grace sober
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it. William Penn
law justice cruelty
Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
law stories steps
If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it. Zig Ziglar