Famous Quotes & Sayings

This law, when it was put into effect, wasn't thought out.

This is a very saddening and distressing situation. It raises a lot of questions, and we are coordinating with law enforcement to get those answered.

This is a very rough time for us, but we must obey the law and the rule of law.

There's a lot of people out there who would love to have that law.

If you can have a message that says time and temperature, why can't you have a message that says 'Car For Sale'? The law has to be written so it's content-neutral.

If you don't want to talk to the cops, talk to this non-law enforcement e-mail.

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.

Apollonius of Tyana

I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.

I probably would if it was a legitimate request from a law enforcement agency. Usually we try to protect students and student information.

If you screw the law for one case, it will screw the law for everybody.

I never thought I'd ever go to a Lawrence road game.

Byron White

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

Byron White

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

Byron White

The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal, and have done so for a very long time.... Respondent would have us announce, as the Court of Appeals did, a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

Bryan Cranston

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

Jane Porter

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.

Jane Roberts

You each have the same energy and it sings within you. You need not be shy of it, it is your own. You need not look to gurus, or Gods, or Seths. It dwells within your own being.

Jane Roberts

Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.

Ethan Allen

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

Erik Paulsen

Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.

Cassandra Clare

Some Laws were meant to be broken.

Cassandra Clare

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

Cassandra Clare

The Law is hard, but it is the Law.

Carolyn Heilbrun

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

Jeremy Rifkin

The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.

Jenny Holzer

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

Gilberto Gil

[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba...

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.

Frank Herbert

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Frank Herbert

That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.

Frank Herbert

Law is the ultimate science.