Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abu Bakar Bashir

Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

Abraham Lincoln

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

Abraham Lincoln

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

Abraham Lincoln

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

Abraham Lincoln

When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

Abraham Lincoln

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

Abraham Lincoln

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

Abraham Lincoln

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

Abraham Lincoln

Laws change; people die; the land remains.

Abraham Lincoln

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

Allan Bloom

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

Ann Druyan

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

Ann Coulter

In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.

Ann Coulter

In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws.

Ann Coulter

Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.

Carolyn McCarthy

We are not looking at any laws that are going to confiscate guns,

James Madison

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

There is a very steep learning curve, even for someone as versed in constitutional law as Roberts is.

William Shakespeare

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Adrian Grenier

I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a scientist; I'm not an expert on environmental law; I'm a guy that can tell stories. So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change.

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Adam Weishaupt

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

Ada Lovelace

Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of human study will be enabled more effectually than heretofore to keep pace with our theoretical knowledge of its principles and laws, through the complete control which the engine gives us over the executive manipulation of algebraical and numerical symbols.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.

Abraham Lincoln

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Abraham Lincoln

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

Abraham Lincoln

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

We've briefed a top barrister in constitutional law and we're ready to go.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.