Famous Quotes & Sayings

I could not find the testimony of two of the defendants credible, ... It showed a blindness, which the law does not permit. Some witnesses saw what was going on, realized what was happening. Some other defendants sensed the problem and withdrew.

Erica Jong

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

Erica Jong

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

Erica Jong

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community.

Enrico Fermi

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

Elvis Costello

The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.

Elon Musk

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

Jason Mraz

Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. Of course there may be courtesies And closures and laws to abide, But the zeal with which you play Relies on where YOU draw the line

Hillary Clinton

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

Hillary Clinton

We want to lead by our values and out interests in ways that, regardless of the trajectory over the next decade, people will know the United States was on the side of democracy, on the side of the rule of law.

Hillary Clinton

As love and joy flood our streets today, it is hard to imagine how anyone could deny the full protection of our laws to any of our fellow Americans - but there are those who would.

Hillary Clinton

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Hillary Clinton

There are those who offer themselves as leaders who even play politics with a nomination of our nations chief law enforcement officer, finally, Loretta Lynch will be able to assume the position she has trained her lifetime for.

Hillary Clinton

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law-end of story.

Hillary Clinton

Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination.

Hillary Clinton

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

Hillary Clinton

It is often the case that laws must change before fears about change dissipate.

Hillary Clinton

Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.

Herbert Read

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

Herbert Read

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

Herbert Hoover

It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.

Herbert Hoover

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Herbert Hoover

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

Everett Dirksen

Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.

Evan Esar

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

Jack London

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

Jack Kevorkian

The law doesn't create a right.

Jack Kevorkian

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

Jack Kevorkian

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

Jack Kemp

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.