Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garet Garrett

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

Franz Grillparzer

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Jim Cooper

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Jennifer Granholm

Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.

Jeff Cooper

What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?

Georges Cuvier

It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine the relations of their organs and which possess a necessity equal to that of metaphysical or mathematical laws, since it is evident that the seemly harmony between organs which interact is a necessary condition of existence of the creature to which they belong and that if one of these functions were modified in a manner incompatible with the modifications of the others the creature could no longer continue to exist.

Georges Cuvier

Since nothing can exist that does not fulfil the conditions which render its existence possible, the different parts each being must be co-ordinated in such a way as to render possible the existence of the being as a whole, not only in itself, but also in its relations with other beings, and the analysis of these conditions often leads to general laws which are as certain as those which are derived from calculation or from experiment.

George William Russell

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

George Whitefield

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.

George Will

Freedom is the silence of the law.

George Will

Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

George Will

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

Jefferson Davis

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.

Jean Paul

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

Jim Gerlach

Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.

Jerry Pournelle

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]

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.