Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Aeschines

Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws.

Aeschines

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

Aesop

Necessity knows no law.

When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel.

Bill Smith

We do what the law directs us to do.

We told her lawyers it was not coerced. We are surprised to learn we had anything to do with her incarceration.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

James Zogby

NSEERS was so poorly conceived and badly managed that it created chaos and fear. Trust between the immigrant community and law enforcement was severely strained and, in the end, there was no evidence that any terrorists were apprehended as a result of the effort.

Jason Chaffetz

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

Janet Frame

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

Jane Siberry

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

Jane Siberry

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

Richard G. Scott

The demands of justice for broken law can be satisfied throughmercy, earned by your continual repentance and obedience to the laws ofGod... Through the Atonement you can live in a world where justiceassures that you will retain what you earn by obedience.

Ricky Gervais

Famous people are above the law,

Susan B. Anthony

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

Brian Ellis

Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of course. Does the chemist ever measure the mass of an atom by measuring its acceleration in a given field of force? Yes. Does the physicist ever determine the strength of a field by measuring the acceleration of a known mass in that field? Certainly. Why then, should any one of these roles be singled out as the role of Newton's second law of motion? The fact is that it has a variety of roles.

Brian Cox

The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent and unchanging. Entropy finally stops increasing because the cosmos cannot get any more disordered. Nothing happens, and it keeps not happening, forever. It's what's known as the heat-death of the universe. An era when the cosmos will remain vast and cold and desolate for the rest of time the arrow of time has simply ceased to exist. It's an inescapable fact of the universe written into the fundamental laws of physics, the entire cosmos will die.

Booth Tarkington

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

Boris Johnson

When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.

Bob Corker

I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.

Bob Dylan

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

Bob Dylan

If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.