Quotes about law
law government london
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law. Benjamin Disraeli
law tables facts
If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell Carl Sandburg
law punishment crime
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime. Cardinal Richelieu
law crime individual
Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
law miracle facts
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. C. S. Lewis
law would-be feels
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more. Calvin Coolidge
law congress-and-the-president effort
The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is my duty to enforce such laws.To prevent smuggling, the Coast Card should be greatly strengthened, and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic... It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.
law majority
One with the law is a majority.
law citizens republic
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
law said teach
Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes. Catherine Jinks
law giving half
Giving is only one-half of the law of increase. Receiving is the other half. We can give and give but we may unbalance the law unless we also expect to receive. Catherine Ponder
law-of-attraction feelings pictures-and-words
What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life.
law leader casting
Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes. Alan Keyes
law taught-us america
We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens....And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America.
law knowing long
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith. Alan Lightman
law play ideas
I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics. The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
law agnostic ultimate-truth
The law is agnostic about truth. Alan Dershowitz
lawyer shut-up cases
A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
law justice clients
Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.
law freedom-of-speech censorship
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.
law world zimmerman
Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching. Alafair Burke
law rely-upon facts
In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
law ideas errors
Symons ... remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling. Alain de Botton
laws reference
Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball? Mickey Mantle
laws pitt properly security sees time
Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart. John Dingell
law reason refused state
One reason the waiver was refused was because it's state law. And because they didn't want to set a precedent.
law lion oppression ox
One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression William Blake
law lead owns parking regular using
No one owns a parking spot; it's the public's right to use them, ... This law will lead to more regular enforcement of the problem. Now, using the littering law is a stretch.
law letter percent professors sign
Only 1.5 Percent of Law Professors Sign Letter Opposing Roberts. Robert Bork
law rule wrongs
No wrongs are righted; the rule of law in a shambles,
law-of-attraction thinking attraction
You become what you continually think about. Earl Nightingale
law strange harmony
Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.
law doubt mind
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want. Eliot Ness