Quotes about law
law congress jokes
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke. Will Rogers
law giving tongue
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue. Rudyard Kipling
law lines matter
The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force. W. Clement Stone
law-of-attraction giving abundance
You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!
law moral
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same
law doubt gray-area
There's a lot of gray area in the law. Who can say, without a doubt, that I was in the wrong? Zach Braff
law raised
Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet. Zane Grey
law possibility property
Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
law noble purpose
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. William H. Seward
law constitution black-power
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
law southern maintenance
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.
law would-be answers
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
law justice liberty
The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree their happiness.
law guilty headlines
Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines? William Hague
law innocence knows
Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence. William Davenant
law easier harder
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong. William E. Gladstone
law justice fairness
Justice delayed is justice denied.
law public-opinion behinds
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Wendell Phillips
law void should
Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
law justice competition
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. Wendell Berry
law mind association
Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists. Walter Pater
law judging public-opinion
Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should... Warren E. Burger
law leader troops
For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated. Warren Buffett
law pay lucky
I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.
law gdp reelection
I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.
law violence bourgeoisie
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws. Vladimir Lenin
law miracle knows
You'll be happy to know that the universal law that created miracles hasn't been repealed. Wayne Dyer
law justice priorities
The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world. Walter Cronkite
law would-be internet
I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.
law way causes
The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it. William Blackstone
law optics action
Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.
law judging declaring
The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.
law evil sorcery
To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.