Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irving Kaufman

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

Guy Pearce

The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'

Gerry Spence

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

Gerald Edelman

Hebb place the Law of Effect at the synaptic level by proposing a correlation model of synaptic modification similar to that of Hayek (1952). This work was seminal in providing a basis for many subsequent theoretical studies . .

Harry Crews

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

Harry Browne

Once we realize that government doesn't work, we'll know that the only way to improve government is by reducing its size - by doing away with laws, by getting rid of programs, by making government spend and tax less, by reducing government as far as we can.

Harold H. Greene

The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

Harold H. Greene

I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

Gwen Ifill

Our position has never been that people should be forced out of Scouting. We have always said that the values of Scouting are universal they should be welcome to everyone who is willing to live by the Scout oath and the Scout law.

Gregor Mendel

That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is acquainted with the extent of the task and who can appreciate the difficulties with which experiments of this kind have to contend.

How can we be vigilantes if we're working with law enforcement? We work within the law.

If Lawyer Ron runs his race, then we're all probably running for second. He's been very impressive.

If Miss Stewart has been truthful, as her lawyers insist, then why won't she tell her story to us under oath?

Victoria Gotti

I have no law degree. I never had a law degree. I don't know where that got started.

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.

Michael Badnarik

I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.

By law, we have to keep it at $68 million, and I for one won't go over the $68 million.

Larry Coker

By the law of averages, ... it should at least be 2-2.

But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.

Neil Gaiman

I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.

John Naisbitt

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

John O. Brennan

We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.

John O. Brennan

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

John O. Brennan

We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

John O. Brennan

By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.

John O. Brennan

The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.

John Wesley

Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

I don't recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise.

John W. Gardner

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

John Ruskin

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

John Stuart Blackie

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.