Quotes about law
law community violation
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. William Blackstone
law people embodiment
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people. William Blackstone
law two scripture
The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these. William Blackstone
law government lions
One law for lion and ox is oppression. William Blake
law religion stones
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. William Blake
law weather space
There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look at our little Explorer; you can set your clock by it-literally; it is more accurate than your clock. Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly. Wernher von Braun
law way ifs
If you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the universe. Werner Erhard
law guilt care
I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me. Werner Herzog
law elements substance
There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance. Werner Herzog
law mind west
It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West. Wallace Stegner
law sober idle
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Samuel Smiles
law broken republic
I have never injected myself or had anyone inject me with anything. I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic. I have been tested as recently as 2004, and I am clean. Sammy Sosa
law justice pay
I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor. Samuel Dash
law long
As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
law judging trials
It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
law
We have to administer the law whether we like it or no. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
law causes hardship
A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
law may principles
Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
law judging facts
I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
law tables stones
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
law agency enforcement
I've played a lot of different cops in a lot of different law enforcement agencies. Samuel L. Jackson
law order want
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power. Salvador Dali
law might able
If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event. Joseph Hume
law corn interest
I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest. Joseph Hume
law class kingdoms
I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom. Joseph Hume
law government morality
Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral. Joseph Farah
law people peaceful
Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for: the rule of law; the protection of civilians; peaceful resolution of conflicts; and mutual respect between people of different faiths and cultures. Kofi Annan
law way physics
The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it. Kevin Kelly
law special delay
When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set. Rahm Emanuel
law giving pirate
My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him. Ralph Waldo Emerson
law games play
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish. Ralph Waldo Emerson
law wealth rich
Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich. Ralph Waldo Emerson
law giver intellect
Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver. Ralph Waldo Emerson