Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

Johannes Kepler

...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that we could share in his own thoughts... and if piety allow us to say so, our understanding is in this respect of the same kind as the divine, at least as far as we are able to grasp something of it in our mortal life.

John Adams

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

John Adams

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

John Adams

I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

John Adams

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

John Adams

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

John Adams

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

Jacob Bronowski

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

This is a lawsuit that never should have been brought. I'm pleased it's over.

All I can say is, from our end, I never talked to Carl about it until after Lawyer was released.

Eric Holder

I'm a hard headed lawyer.

Eric Holder

Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

Eric Holder

No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

Emo Philips

Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.

Emmet Fox

We build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physical plane.

James F. Cooper

An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.

James Cook

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

James Allen

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.

James Allen

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

James Anthony Froude

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

Frederick Soddy

Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known, not merely by inanimate things, but also by living organisms, in their minutest parts, as single individuals, and also as whole communities. It results from this that, however complicated a series of phenomena may be and however many other sciences may enter into its complete presentation, the purely physical aspect, or the application of the known laws of matter and energy, can always be legitimately separated from the other aspects.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.

George Gaylord Simpson

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

Jon Meacham

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

Jon Kyl

Big guy and little guy, it should make no difference. The rule of law demands neutrality.

John Yoo

It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

John Yoo

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

Johnny Cash

He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.