Quotes about law
law comedy natural
If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from. Robert Benchley
law people feelings
It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour. Richard Wagner
law states
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. Rene Descartes
law giving safety
I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake Thomas More
law doctrine old-and-new
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries. Thomas Paine
law names perfect
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.
law government doe
A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.
law support gold
If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.
law generations succeed
It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.
law empires revolution
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole. Thomas Hutchinson
law mind shadow
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? Thomas Huxley
law games chess-game
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
law looks purpose
It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion.
law judging virtue
A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state. Thomas F. Wilson
law voice doubt
None within the sound of my voice should be in any doubt concerning what is moral and what is not, nor should any be in doubt about what is expected of us ... We have been and continue to be taught God's laws. Despite what you may see or hear elsewhere, these laws are unchanging. Thomas S. Monson
law people negative
Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral. Thomas Sowell
law return principles
Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.
law matter immigration
If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.
law ideas justice
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".
law world response
When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.
law black vision
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that the left has spawned. That the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of discrimination, has disintegrated in the wake of the liberal welfare states is only one example.
law ideas creating
When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this idea. The clashing of atoms by blind chance has nothing in it fit to raise our conceptions, or to elevate the mind. But the regular structure of a vast system of beings, produced by creating power, and governed by the best laws which perfect wisdom and goodness could contrive, is a spectacle which elevates the understanding, and fills the soul with devout admiration. Thomas Reid
law facts influence
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
law house ships
The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
law opposites long
That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite. Robert Lanza
law existence grows
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
law community police
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
law evil action
I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication. Walt Whitman
law greed world
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. Saul Alinsky
law issues library
In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called upon to decide. It provides the stability and continuity for the rule of law. Sandra Day O'Connor
law constitution cases
I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.
lawyer professors young
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
law roles interpreting
The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.