Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Hay

There are people looking for exactly what you have to offer, and you are being brought together on the checkerboard of life.

Lois Lerner

I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee.

Lloyd Alexander

You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.

Lysander Spooner

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

Lysander Spooner

Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.

Lysander Spooner

The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind.

Lysander Spooner

To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking.

Lysander Spooner

No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.

Lysander Spooner

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.

Louis XIV

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louisa May Alcott

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.

John George Nicolay

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.

John George Nicolay

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

John George Nicolay

Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.

John Glenn

Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.

John Flavel

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

John F. Kennedy

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

John F. Kennedy

Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.

John F. Kennedy

Race has no place in American life or law.

John F. Kennedy

No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.

John F. Kennedy

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

Lisa Anderson

If we ignore international institutions, it will lead only to lawlessness and anarchy.

Linus Torvalds

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.

Linda Hogan

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

Linda Chavez

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

Linda Ellerbee

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Lincoln Steffens

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

Leo Tolstoy

In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

Leo Tolstoy

Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

Leo Tolstoy

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

Leo Tolstoy

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

Lee Terry

I am not a promoter of more laws, just better ones.

Lawrence Summers

Spread the truth-the laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. One set of laws works everywhere.