Quotes about law
law would-be feels
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more. Calvin Coolidge
law congress-and-the-president effort
The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is my duty to enforce such laws.To prevent smuggling, the Coast Card should be greatly strengthened, and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic... It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.
law majority
One with the law is a majority.
law citizens republic
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
law said teach
Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes. Catherine Jinks
law giving half
Giving is only one-half of the law of increase. Receiving is the other half. We can give and give but we may unbalance the law unless we also expect to receive. Catherine Ponder
law-of-attraction feelings pictures-and-words
What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life.
law leader casting
Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes. Alan Keyes
law taught-us america
We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens....And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America.
law knowing long
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith. Alan Lightman
law play ideas
I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics. The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
law agnostic ultimate-truth
The law is agnostic about truth. Alan Dershowitz
lawyer shut-up cases
A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
law justice clients
Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.
law freedom-of-speech censorship
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.
law world zimmerman
Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching. Alafair Burke
law rely-upon facts
In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
law ideas errors
Symons ... remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling. Alain de Botton
law competition competing
Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public. Al Franken
law decision choices
I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power? Al Gore
law light important
As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws
law authority cases
My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.
law roots vaunt
Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. Charles Kingsley
law lawyer suspects
The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect. Charles Churchill
law advancement origin-of-species
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. Charles Darwin
law free-will fixed
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
law facts predictions
Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to see the bearing of scattered facts.
law direct-action growth
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.
law desire facts
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.
law rewards england
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. Charles Babbage
law light government
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit from his ingenuity, whilst he who unravels the laws of light and vision, on which multitudes of phenomena depend, shall descend unrewarded to the tomb.
law welfare aim
I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them. Barry Goldwater
law tyrants persuasion
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.