Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Robinson

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

Margaret Thatcher

When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.

Margaret Deland

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

Lauren Oliver

That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.

Lauren Oliver

Love obeys no laws other than its own.

Lajos Kossuth

Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.

L. Frank Baum

. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .

L. Neil Smith

There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

L. Neil Smith

America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws.

P. J. O'Rourke

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can tell you. ... government practices deceptive advertising. And the merest glance at the federal budget is enough to convict the government of perjury, extortion, and fraud. ... in a nutshell: government should be against the law. Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

Paul Cellucci

I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.

Paul Cellucci

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

Oscar Wilde

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

Oscar Wilde

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

Oscar Wilde

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Oscar Wilde

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

Oscar Wilde

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

Oscar Wilde

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Mae West

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Madonna Ciccone

Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?

Lyman Trumbull

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

Lyman Beecher

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

Lyman Abbott

Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.

Lydia M. Child

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

Lucretius

All things obey fixed laws.

Lucretius

I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky, And the primordial germs of things unfold, Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies And fosters all, and whither she resolves Each in the end when each is overthrown. This ultimate stock we have devised to name Procreant atoms, matter, seeds of things, Or primal bodies, as primal to the world.

Louis L'Amour

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

Louis Farrakhan

We have to make a distinction between members of the Jewish community who sincerely are trying to follow the laws, statutes and commandments of God in their covenant relationship with Him, but among them are those who say they are Jews and they are not. And this is why the scripture refers to them as the Synagogue of Satan because their work is an evil work. They are doing exactly what Satan is supposed to do - which is to spread evil, not to contain evil to himself but to spread evil to others and make others deviate from the laws, statutes and commandments of God.

Lou Barletta

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

Michael Cunningham

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

Mark Twain

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

Mark Twain

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

Mark Twain

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.