Ethel Watts Mumford Quotes
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
Ted Cruz -
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
J. M. Coetzee -
The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
Ted Cruz -
Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
J. B. Pritzker -
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
Harold H. Greene -
Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
G. Edward Griffin
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What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
Naomi Klein -
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel Johnson -
At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
Sally Yates -
To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.
Rand Paul -
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Samuel Butler -
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Sallust
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Everybody infers that Islam must be free from slavery and caste. Regarding slavery nothing needs to be said. It stands abolished now by law. But while it existed much of its support was derived from Islam and Islamic countries. (228-230)
Babasaheb -
Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.
Larry Wall -
...with Indians there is an unhealthy love of the law...
Anthony Burgess -
I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.
Alan Dershowitz -
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
Livy -
Scientifically speaking, an overweight person is more attractive than a skinny one. Newton's Law of Gravitation.
Anu Garg
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I would like to stress this point undoubtedly: France sees the Arab Spring as auspicious. The Arab Spring holds out tremendous hope - hope for democracy and the rule of law, hope for peace and stability, hope for better future in which every person can pursue goals commensurate with his or her needs, talents and ambitions.
Alain Juppe -
I regret that, in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation, really.
Walter Cronkite -
Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
Above all things, reverence yourself.
Pythagoras -
I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.
Charlaine Harris -
Where there is a will there's a law suit.
Ethel Watts Mumford