Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Ford

This is not what you ordered, ... This is not what the law requires.

Sallust

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

S. I. Hayakawa

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

Russell Pearce

Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.

Russell Pearce

If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced.

Russell Pearce

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

Russell Pearce

In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it.

Russell Pearce

I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law.

Romano Prodi

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

Ron Paul

September 11th does not justify ignoring the Constitution by creating broad new federal police powers. The rule of law is worthless if we ignore it whenever crises occur.

Ron Paul

I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.

Sam Rayburn

Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.

Sally Field

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

Roy Cohn

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.

Susan Bysiewicz

Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.

Susan B. Anthony

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

Stockwell Day

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

Stokely Carmichael

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Storm Jameson

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

Solon

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

Solon

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Steve Israel

Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.

Steve Jobs

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Steve Chabot

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

Peace Pilgrim

Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.

Peace Pilgrim

We worship God, but have no faith in the workings of God's laws of love. The world awaits the living of the law of love, which will reach the divine within all human beings and transform them.

Peace Pilgrim

The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems... There was a time when I thought it was a nuisance to be confronted with a problem. I tried to get rid of it. I tried to get somebody else to solve it for me. But that was a long time ago. It was a great day in my life when I discovered the wonderful purpose of problems. Yes, they have a wonderful purpose.

Peace Pilgrim

Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good.

Peter Ustinov

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

Peter Kropotkin

The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived harmony, disappears to make room for the harmony that Fourier had caught a glimpse of: the one which results from the disorderly and incoherent movements of numberless hosts of matter, each of which goes its own way and all of which hold each other in equilibrium.