Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Webster

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

Daniel Webster

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

Daniel Webster

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

David Cameron

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

Diogenes

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Dick Francis

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

Dick Gregory

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Desmond Tutu

Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.

Desmond Tutu

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.

Derek Luke

Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law.

Derek Sivers

When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.

Deepak Chopra

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

Deepak Chopra

You and I are infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. Some of these choices are made consciously, while others are made unconsciously. But the best way to understand and maximize the use of karmic law is to become consciously aware of the choices we make every moment.

Deepak Chopra

The Law of Detachment: 1) Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. 2) Do not force solutions - allow solutions to spontaneously emerge. 3) Uncertainty is essential, and you path to freedom.

Debbie Stabenow

We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe.

Angelina Grimke

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

Cindy Sheehan

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.

Cillian Murphy

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

Chuck Norris

Good morals lead to good laws.

Andrew Johnson

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

Andrew Johnson

The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words. This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof and all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding

Andrew Jackson

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

Andrew Jackson

I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.

Anthony Burgess

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

Andy Stanley

One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.

Angela Bassett

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

Anatole France

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

Anatole France

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

Alvin Toffler

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

Chuck Palahniuk

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Chuck Grassley

Some liberal interest groups have come out in full force and have attempted to paint Judge [Samuel] Alito to be an extremist and to be an activist. They've criticized a nominee who has, from what I see described by these lawyers and fellow judges, a reputation of being a restrained jurist committed to the rule of law and the Constitution.

Chuck Grassley

Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won't be tolerated.

Chuck Grassley

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.