Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Hamilton Houston

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

Charles Fried

If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.

Bob Black

Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most of what little there is consists of Randite rantings against parasites, barely distinguishable from the invective inflicted on dissidents by the Soviet press....

Bob Black

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

Bob Black

I'm the out-of-court jester who won't settle, I up the vigilante, I'm a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?

Bob Barr

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

Bill McCollum

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

Bill McKibben

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

Bill Maher

The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on political issues from getting called whores by Oxycontin addicts.

Bill Maher

What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

Bill Ayers

If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.

Beth Moore

Knowing we’re saved by grace but still living under the law makes for a spiritually neurotic person.

Bill Vaughan

Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.

Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.

We're making sure that what we are doing here today is now in law.

We respect the law of war, unlike our adversary, who uses mosques,

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

Bobby Jindal

When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

Benjamin Franklin

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.

Benjamin Franklin

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

Benjamin Franklin

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

Benjamin Franklin

Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

Benjamin Franklin

What can laws do without morals?

Benjamin Franklin

Laws without morals are in vain.

Benjamin Franklin

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

Barbara Tuchman

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

Arthur Goldberg

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

Arthur Eddington

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

Arthur Eddington

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

Arthur Eddington

Time is the supreme Law of nature.

Arthur Conan Doyle

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.