Quotes about law
law rights contracts
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. John Marshall
law taxation burden
Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.
law essentials constitution-of-the-united-states
The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
law constitution tyranny
A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
law judicial-review legislature
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
law taxation limits
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
law mind deceit
I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless. John Lyly
law conditions
As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
lawyer do-you-know knows
What do you know about music? You're not a lawyer. John Lurie
law matter action
Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant. John Locke
law common reason
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
law reason states
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.
law atheism church
As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner.
law punishment desire
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
law liberty abolish
Where there is no law there is no freedom.
law ends tyranny
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
law sin treason
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason. John Knox
law tennis teeth
I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow. Jimmy Connors
law community social-behavior
Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high - violations of life, limb, property and so on. Barring that, etiquette is a little social contract we make that we will restrain some of our more provocative impulses in return for living more or less harmoniously in a community. Judith Martin
law people everyday
You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you behave in a way that offends the people you're trying to deal with, they will stop dealing with you...There are plenty of people who say, 'We don't care about etiquette, but we can't stand the way so-and-so behaves, and we don't want him around!' Etiquette doesn't have the great sanctions that the law has. But the main sanction we do have is in not dealing with these people and isolating them because their behavior is unbearable.
law people missing
Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.
law states etiquette
If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.
law way facts
A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way. Joseph McCabe
law belief life-is
The law of life is the law of belief. Joseph Murphy
law florida justice
If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which theyre not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards. Katherine Harris
law florida people
I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.
law justice principles
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle. Joseph Conrad
law two people
Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest. Kate Millett
law
Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us. Kary Mullis
law agriculture demand
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. John Kenneth Galbraith
law truth-is court
The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law. Joy Fielding
law-of-attraction needs power-of-thought
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life.
law grace judgment
Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law. Joseph Prince