Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

Anthony Kennedy

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

Anthony Kennedy

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

Alice Cooper

I came into this life, looked all around. I saw just what I liked and took what I found.

Anne Lamott

Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

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.

Sophie Swetchine

The law of common sense.

Alexander MacLaren

The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy.

Alexander Pope

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Alexander Pope

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Alexander Pope

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

Alexander Pope

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

Alexander Pope

Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.

E. P. Thompson

Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found "against the evidence," ... the English common law rests upon a bargain between the Law and the people: The jury box is where the people come into the court: The judge watches them and the people watch back. A jury is the place where the bargain is struck. The jury attends in judgment, not only upon the accused, but also upon the justice and the humanity of the Law.

E. Stanley Jones

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

E. O. Wilson

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.

E. O. Wilson

Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.

E. M. Forster

My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

Dorothy Thompson

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Donald Trump

I assume I can give you a letter from a big law firm saying that we're under audit.

Donald Trump

We have to bring back respect to law enforcement.

Douglas Wilson

If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).

Dorothy Height

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.

Colley Cibber

Possession is eleven points in the law.

Colleen McCullough

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.

Claude Bernard

Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.

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.