Quotes about law
law littles enforcement
Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them. Spencer Bachus
law social-values unfortunate
Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. Sonia Sotomayor
law judging tasks
The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law. Sonia Sotomayor
law land constitution
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law. Sonia Sotomayor
law people tape
All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know. Sonia Sotomayor
law feelings facts
We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts. Sonia Sotomayor
law parent physics
Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something? Sophie Kinsella
law brash theorems
Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ... Thomas Pynchon
law cotton genius
Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses. Thomas B. Macaulay
law people enemy
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. Thomas B. Macaulay
law political soul
Reason is the Soul of the Law. Thomas Hobbes
law body too-much
The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law. Thomas Hobbes
law conscience
The law is the public conscience. Thomas Hobbes
law opinion individual
How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion. Thomas Hobbes
law leviathan common
Where there is no common power, there is no law Thomas Hobbes
law should
This is that law of the Gospel; whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them. Thomas Hobbes
law judgement cases
For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged. Thomas Hobbes
law justice authority
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law Thomas Hobbes
law firsts fundamentals
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it. Thomas Hobbes
law innovation needs
Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates. Tim Walberg
law messages needs
If I'm expected to keep your messages, and everybody else's, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these. Tim Cook
law enforcement cameras
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. Tim Cook
law judging judgement
The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it. Thomas Jefferson
law self preservation
The law of self-preservation is higher than written law. Thomas Jefferson
law limits citizens
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits. Thomas Jefferson
law force difficulty
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force. Thomas Jefferson
law giving arbitrary
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience. Thomas Jefferson
law keys may
[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the express words of the law. Thomas Jefferson
law tyrants inalienable-rights
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. Thomas Jefferson
law rights voting
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law. Thomas Jefferson
law giving liberty
Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it. Thomas Jefferson
law justice judging
If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact. Thomas Jefferson
law england crime
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it. Thomas Francis Meagher