Quotes about law
law perception moral
Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law. Oswald Chambers
law healthy needs
Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And we need to start with a new principle: Put the patient in the driver's seat. That's how we can build a healthy economy. Paul Ryan
law trying lines
Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we should draw the line. ... Our courts are ... trying to define pornography, yet moral law is very specific to any reader of God's Word. Paul Harvey
law president republican
Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone. Patrick Leahy
law justice people
The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law.
law aids retribution
AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature. Pat Buchanan
law careers judging
(H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.
law evil
Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. Pat Conroy
law people vote
If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people. Justin Amash
law church members
Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable. Joseph Smith, Jr.
law liberty may
Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law. Joseph Sobran
law death-penalty penalties
In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty. Joseph Stalin
law track enemy
Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.
law historical politics
The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened.
law order family-and-friends
Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin. Nelly
law ideas touching
I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force. Neill Blomkamp
law president different
We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it very clear that the courts can't make a law. The Constitution is expressly clear that that's a power reserved to Congress. Mike Huckabee
law two government
We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.
law president branches
Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it.
law good-man may
For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained. [It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.] Niccolo Machiavelli
law people support
For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.
law two mind
He who has annexed them [some principalities], if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one that the family of the former lord is extinguished: the other that neither their laws not their taxes are altered.
law good-man may
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.
law literature politics
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
law needs moral
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.
law orderliness compromise
The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality. Neville Cardus
law jail morality
See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality… That's why you get to go to jail and I don't. Newt Gingrich
law scripture principles
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. Noah Webster
law attention foundation
The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual system ... than to correct by penal statutes the ill effects of a bad system. ... The education of youth ... lays the foundations on which both law and gospel rest for success.
law two stones
The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.
law credit debt
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy. Noam Chomsky
law iraq leader
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
law ideas united-states
The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.