Famous Quotes & Sayings

All the lawsuits have not been resolved, ... but it looks very positive.

Edward Tufte

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

Edward Coke

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

Edward Coke

Law is the safest helmet.

Edward Coke

Common law is common right.

Edward Coke

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

Edward Coke

Reason is the life of the law.

Edward Coke

For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same.

Edward Coke

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.

Edward Coke

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

Edward Coke

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

Edward Coke

The Law ... is perfection of reason.

Edward Coke

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

Edward Coke

In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.

Edward Coke

The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.

Hermann von Helmholtz

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Henry Van Dyke

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

Jose Rizal

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

Jose Saramago

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world...

Jose Saramago

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Jonathan Zittrain

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

Jonathan Swift

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Kevin Bales

The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.

Kenneth Kaunda

The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

Kelly Ayotte

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

Khalil Gibran

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

Jonathan Swift

Come, agree, the law's costly.

Jonathan Swift

It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.

Jonathan Swift

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

Jonathan Raban

Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.

Jonathan Sacks

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.