Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

Woody Allen

Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.

William Whipple

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

William Whewell

But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.

William Wordsworth

And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

William Shirley

I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.

William Shenstone

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

William McKinley

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

William J. Clinton

Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.

William J. Clinton

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

William Gaddis

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

William Gilmore Simms

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

William Gilmore Simms

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

Will Durant

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

Sarah Palin

We should create law based on the God of the Bible,

Sara Bareilles

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

Samuel Rogers

That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.

Wilbur Smith

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

Saint Augustine

The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

Saint Augustine

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

Saint Augustine

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

Saint Augustine

The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

Saint Augustine

The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.

Saint Augustine

The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.

Ulysses S. Grant

I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

Ulysses S. Grant

You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.

Ulysses S. Grant

The will of the people is the best law.

Robin Wasserman

The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.

Robert Mueller

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

Robert Collier

Knowing that you have working with you a force, which never yet has failed in anything it has undertaken, you can go ahead in the confident knowledge that it will not fail in your case, either.

Rob Bishop

Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry.

Richard Perle

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Richard P. Feynman

We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation.