Famous Quotes & Sayings

There have always been three trains moving simultaneously down the track -- negotiations for a transfer, litigation and law enforcement. We are no longer in the engineer's seat on the negotiation train. We're just passengers.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

Jerome K. Jerome

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

There are a lot of production firms and law firms in the area. And the ones that I have come together with have been positive about my work and my style.

Adam Schiff

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

This sends a strong message to growers that the law will not tolerate requiring workers to work off the clock.

When you have unjust laws and unjust actions, people take to the streets.

Mark McCormack

We thought the lawsuit was pretty frivolous." ()

Orson Scott Card

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.

Alberto Fujimori

We were not going to liberate, release those terrorists because of our law and because of our national security and also the regional security.

We don't begrudge Mark from making a living, just not in law enforcement.

Alan Dershowitz

We wouldn't even know where to look to find the law because there is no law.

F. Lee Bailey

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

John Quincy Adams

I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

David Boies

Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.

David Boies

It was important for the Supreme Court to say it’s a matter of constitutional law that everyone is equal, to say everyone is entitled to the dignity that comes from being married to the person you love.

David Ben-Gurion

The law is whatever people determine it to be.

David A. Bednar

To those of you who pay your tithing, I commend you. To those of you who presently are not obeying the law of tithing, I invite you to consider your ways and repent. I testify that by your obedience to this law of the Lord, the windows of heaven will be opened to you. Please do not procrastinate the day of your repentance.

David A. Bednar

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

David Mamet

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

Claude M. Bristol

Whatever we fix our thoughts upon or steadily focus our imagination upon, that is what we attract.

Clarence Thomas

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Dan Simmons

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Dan Rather

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

Dan Rather

By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.

Dan Quayle

I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.

There are rednecks in our society and they can take law into their own hands,

The racing law is going to have to change.

We only see our public officials when it's time for a vote. The only time you see law officers is when they're making an arrest.

When Ruddock starts slapping anklets on these people, their own lawyers would immediately mount challenges,

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

When I first started, I said 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, the lawyers say, 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, we're even older than most of the judges.

Ludwig von Mises

Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.