Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Locke

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

John Locke

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

John Knox

But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

Jimmy Connors

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Extending amnesty to those who came here illegally or overstayed their visas is dangerous waters...We are a nation of laws, and I will evaluate any proposal through that matrix.

Jim Sensenbrenner

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

Joanna Baillie

Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

George Lucas

You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If you do not cooperate, if you do not work together to keep the entire organism going, the whole thing dies, and everybody dies with it. That's a law of nature, and it's existed forever. We're one of the very few creatures that has a choice, and can intellectualize the process.

George MacDonald

Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent nothing save in accordance with the laws of the world of the senses; but it must not therefore be imagined that they desire escape from the region of law.

George MacDonald

We are not made for law, we are made for love.

Emmet Fox

Whatever you experience in your life is really but the outpicturing of your own thoughts and beliefs. Now, you can change these thoughts and beliefs, and then the outer picture must change too. The outer picture cannot change until you change your thought.

Elvis Presley

Number 47 said to number 3, you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see.

Judith Martin

Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high - violations of life, limb, property and so on. Barring that, etiquette is a little social contract we make that we will restrain some of our more provocative impulses in return for living more or less harmoniously in a community.

Judith Martin

You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you behave in a way that offends the people you're trying to deal with, they will stop dealing with you...There are plenty of people who say, 'We don't care about etiquette, but we can't stand the way so-and-so behaves, and we don't want him around!' Etiquette doesn't have the great sanctions that the law has. But the main sanction we do have is in not dealing with these people and isolating them because their behavior is unbearable.

Judith Martin

Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.

Judith Martin

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Joseph McCabe

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.

Joseph Murphy

The law of life is the law of belief.

Katherine Harris

If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which theyre not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.

Katherine Harris

I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.

Joseph Conrad

There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.

Kate Millett

Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.

Kary Mullis

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

Gayle Forman

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

Gary Gilmore

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

Lord Acton

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

Lord Acton

There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

Lord Acton

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

Lloyd Cutler

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

Livy

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

Livy

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.