Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

Plato

No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

Plato

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

Plato

They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

Plato

If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

Martin Schulz

[Helmut] Kohl said Europe must return to being a community committed to stability and the rule of law.

Lech Walesa

The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.

Lech Walesa

Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.

Lance Armstrong

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

Laini Taylor

It's not like there's a law against flying." "Yes there is. The law of gravity.

Lisa Leslie

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer

John Vanbrugh

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

John Vanbrugh

Custom is the law of fools.

John Taylor

I have not revoked this law, nor will I, for it is everlasting, and those who will enter into my glory must obey the conditions thereof; Even so Amen.

John Taylor

All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept inviolate. But if they are violative of the constitution, then the compact between the rulers and the ruled is broken and the obligation ceases to be binding.

John Stuart Mill

Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.

John Stuart Mill

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

John Stuart Mill

It is a law, that every event depends on the same law.

John Stuart Mill

If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.

John Stuart Mill

In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence

John Shadegg

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

John Selden

Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience.

John Rawls

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

John Ray

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

John Ray

They that make laws must not break them.

James Joseph Sylvester

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

James Inhofe

People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.

James Richardson

On what is valuable thieves and the law agree.

Laurence J. Peter

do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.

Larry Evans

Robert Fischer is a law unto himself

Lamar S. Smith

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

Lamar Hunt

My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.