Quotes about law
law numbers government
The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws. Tacitus
law precedent found
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. Tacitus
law kind cycles
In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.] Tacitus
law liberty states
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. Tacitus
law cycles all-things
In all things there is a law of cycles. Tacitus
law suffering politics
Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws. Tacitus
law lawyer corruption
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. Tacitus
law evil discipline
No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on. Swami Vivekananda
law truth-revealed vedas
The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless. Swami Vivekananda
law growth body
The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay. Swami Vivekananda
law two heaven
Whenever two particles come together, they are held by a certain attraction; and there will come a time when those particles will separate. This is the eternal law. So, wherever there is a body - either grosser or finer, either in heaven or on earth - death will overcome it. Swami Vivekananda
law-of-attraction body particles
The law of attraction which holds good for the heavenly bodies also holds good for the smallest particles. Swami Vivekananda
law space three
Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three. Swami Vivekananda
law atoms use
The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?" Swami Vivekananda
law justice judging
That's not the federal law. What you're confusing is law with the opinion of a justice, what one lone federal judge says is not law. Roy Moore
law ten-commandments ten
The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law. Roy Moore
law track enforcement
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. Ron Wyden
law surveillance-state liberty
You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans. Ron Wyden
law ethics morse-code
The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code. Ron Wyden
law facts duty
I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them. Stephanie Tubbs Jones
law people broadway
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that. Stanley Tucci
law practice common-sense
Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue. Sophie Swetchine
law ham sandwiches
A grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted. Sol Wachtler
law
Is everything right because the law allows it? Solomon Northup
law justice slavery
I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery; Solomon Northup
law numbers speech
Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior. Stanley Fish
law swans house
There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house." - Charlie Swan Stephenie Meyer
law liberty important
It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty Stephen Breyer
law people trials
You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts Stephen Breyer
law understanding demand
This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly changing social, economic, and technological conditions. Stephen Breyer
law guy habeas-corpus
Now I don't know why he's denying them habeas corpus. I can only assume the guys they got detained over there did something really unforgivable. Like remind Obama he was once a professor of Constitutional Law. Stephen Colbert
law silence likes
The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it. Stella Benson
law movement recognition
It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times. Stefan Zweig