Quotes about law
law interesting mechanic
Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting. Lawrence M. Krauss
law tickets death-penalty
If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving. Lawrence Lessig
lawyer
I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.
law rights plus
Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.
law citizens rule-of-law
Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.
law availability justice
Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status. Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
law government should
There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power. Lewis Black
law want doe
You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.
law giving reform
It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish. Leonard Boswell
law growth progress
God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow, Joyce Meyer
law people liberty
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law. Joseph Story
law fundamentals human-nature
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited. Joseph Wood Krutch
law survival realization
At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one. Joseph Campbell
law survival firsts
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
law disrespect honor
To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
law belief natural
Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it. Karl Popper
law political politics
They that possess the prince possess the laws. John Dryden
law government fundamentals
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. John Marshall
law imagine taxes
No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.
law rights contracts
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
law taxation burden
Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.
law essentials constitution-of-the-united-states
The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
law constitution tyranny
A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
law judicial-review legislature
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
law taxation limits
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
law mind deceit
I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless. John Lyly
law conditions
As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
lawyer do-you-know knows
What do you know about music? You're not a lawyer. John Lurie
law matter action
Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant. John Locke
law common reason
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
law reason states
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.
law atheism church
As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner.
law punishment desire
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.