Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Sometimes that's the only law you can find.

The auditor's report shows Minnesota's system of liquor laws is broken.

It's probably one of those nuanced things that will take lawyers a little time to sort out.

Michael Novak

It sounds like we are trying to make new law here and we are really not.

Nancy Grace

It's my understanding, ... that there has been rampant looting. In fact, martial law declared in other areas. Have you seen looting?

It is very important now to have a lot of patience, self-restraint, and cool-headedness, ... In other words, no one should take the law in their hands.

It's an unwritten law that it's my lunch pail. I've issued the challenge. If someone outworks me, they can get it.

Jon Hamm

It's kind of a different society now in terms of recruiting police officers. It's not unique to us. People don't want to be in law enforcement.

It was done perfectly within the law. It was well before 90 days.

John Ashcroft

It needs to stop, ... Every American has a right to look to law enforcement officials to protect their rights.

It (law) seemed like the occupation where you could get things done.

It was an opportunity, something I wanted to try at the time. I wasn't in position, financially, to go to law school. And, I liked children. It seemed like a no-brainer,

It made viable the idea that, with sequels, the law of diminishing returns doesn't always apply.

It's going to take a little while before these laws are actually changed.

It's for people who are tired of the lawn mower.

It's been more than six months. It's time to get serious about this. This is the law now and it is time to comply.

That's one of the reasons why we're so open-door about this. We're all law abiding,

It's something I've always wanted to do since I went into law enforcement.

Elizabeth Loftus

It's not as simple as looking at the number of students going into law school and suggesting that they'll all need to qualify when they get out,

It's not a question for the Secretary of the Treasury to rethink how the law is enforced. For some countries, it's difficult. For some companies, it's difficult.

Back then it was part of life. Today, they want to make another law.

Mike Love

That's what the law says, but whether they can get it or not, it's going to be a stretch.

Dwight Howard

That should come under the state's price-gouging law.

That's like saying we can't have privacy laws for telephones to protect the privacy of telephone conversations because that might spill over into other areas,

All beauteous things for which we liveBy laws of time and space decay.But oh, the very reason whyI clasp them, is because they die.

Charles M. Schulz

Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.

Every lawyer worth his salt is putting in a lethal injection challenge.

It is Virginia law that you have to move out of the way of the overtaking vehicle, even if they are speeding. I don't think a lot of people know that.

Thomas Jefferson

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Hal Lindsey

The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.