Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Cellucci

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

Oscar Wilde

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

Oscar Wilde

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

Oscar Wilde

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Ivan Illich

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

Isaiah Berlin

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.

Isak Dinesen

It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.

Isak Dinesen

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.

Ichiro Ozawa

The Constitution is the fundamental rule for people to live in society. If the rule no longer suits the lives of the general public due to changing times, it should be changed. That goes for regular laws as well as the Constitution.

Ida B. Wells

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

Ida B. Wells

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

Hunter Tylo

I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.

Gloria Naylor

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Gloria Steinem

Law and justice are not always the same.

Gloria Steinem

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Giordano Bruno

There is no law governing all things.

Giordano Bruno

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

Harry S Truman

[T]he guilty as well as the innocent are entitled to due process of law. They are entitled to a fair trial. They are entitled to counsel. They are entitled to fair treatment from the police. The law enforcement officer has the same duty as the citizen-indeed, he has a higher duty-to abide by the letter and spirit of our Constitution and laws. You yourselves must be careful to obey the letter of the law. You yourselves must be intellectually honest in the enforcement of the law.

Harry S Truman

This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.

J. P. Morgan

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

J. K. Rowling

Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment.

Nancy Pearcey

If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, "Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get."

Julian Baggini

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

Julian Baggini

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

Julian Assange

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

Julian Assange

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

Julian Assange

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Kenneth Lay

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

Ken Calvert

In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Michael Eisner

Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.

Michael Azerrad

There's no law that says anybody has to do an interview.

Michael Badnarik

The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.