Quotes about law
law limits being-true
Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true. Vilfredo Pareto
law phrases libertarian
Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that law of which the person using the phrase approves[....]
law tomorrow ifs
All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . . Victoria Woodhull
law natural-justice demand
Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands. Victor Cousin
law agriculture political
Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or gardeners; or in the corporate interest of cheap labor in the hospitality industries, agriculture, and construction; or in the political sense of new liberal constituents; or in the tribal sense of expanding the so-called La Raza base. But the vast majority of Americans accept that when federal law is ignored, chaos ensues. Victor Davis Hanson
law race hatred
The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who. Victor Hugo
law boredom submit
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
law doe death-penalty
What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
law causes study
Study carefully the law of cause and effect. Vernon Howard
law world appearance
Whatever We Hold in Thought Comes True in Our Experience; Like Attracts Like; we experiment with the Law of Changing Appearances, to make our outer world reflect our inner. Richard Bach
law gulls jonathan-livingston-seagull
The only true law is that which leads to freedom,
law done violence
Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law. Robert Frost
law judging democracy
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge. Robert Bork
law judging decision
The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for.
law purpose separation
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
law comedy natural
If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from. Robert Benchley
law people feelings
It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour. Richard Wagner
law states
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. Rene Descartes
law giving safety
I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake Thomas More
law doctrine old-and-new
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries. Thomas Paine
law names perfect
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.
law government doe
A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.
law support gold
If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.
law generations succeed
It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.
law empires revolution
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole. Thomas Hutchinson
law mind shadow
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? Thomas Huxley
law games chess-game
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
law looks purpose
It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion.
law judging virtue
A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state. Thomas F. Wilson
law investing investment
Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable. Samantha Power
law together doe
What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature. Rumi
law-of-attraction way walks
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
law world stills
If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist. Tom McClintock