Quotes about law
law government madness
Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government. Gilbert K. Chesterton
law liberty anarchy
When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
law people needs
We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
law
Sometimes that's the only law you can find.
law healthy needs
Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And we need to start with a new principle: Put the patient in the driver's seat. That's how we can build a healthy economy. Paul Ryan
law trying lines
Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we should draw the line. ... Our courts are ... trying to define pornography, yet moral law is very specific to any reader of God's Word. Paul Harvey
law president republican
Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone. Patrick Leahy
law justice people
The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law.
law aids retribution
AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature. Pat Buchanan
law careers judging
(H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.
law evil
Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. Pat Conroy
law people vote
If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people. Justin Amash
law church members
Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable. Joseph Smith, Jr.
law liberty may
Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law. Joseph Sobran
law death-penalty penalties
In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty. Joseph Stalin
law track enemy
Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.
law historical politics
The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened.
law instruments abandon
O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature. Leonardo da Vinci
law vitality
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
law yield sick
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. Oscar Wilde
law world finals
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. Paul Ricoeur
law anomalies development
Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages. Paul Gauguin
law skills people
Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them. Patricia Arquette
law us-constitution above-the-law
No one -- absolutely no one -- is above the law, Leon Jaworski
law cities space
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation. Leon Krier
law justice common
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. Learned Hand
law liberty littles
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.
law ears aliens
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
law regulation stuff
Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.
law political ears
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
law community important
The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and more important, part of the law; subtract these and very little content would be left.
law excess rule-of-law
An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law. Laurence Tribe
law political president
The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first Administration. Mitch McConnell