Laws Quotes
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
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No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
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If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.
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In the Laws of Cnut, it was formally laid down that no one is to bother the King with his complaints, so long as he can get Justice in the Hundred.
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I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.
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The angle of entry of the ball equals the angle of release. You cannot deny the laws of science.
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We have got to secure the border and enforce existing immigration laws.
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The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.
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Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.
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It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.
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Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community’s values.
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Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.
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The supreme being of the Deists could be apprehended by practical investigation and the use of reason to understand natural laws. Religious faith was not needed, nor were miracles, divine inspiration, or personal revelations of God’s spirit.
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We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.
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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
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It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
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States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
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The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.
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The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.
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If there was such a thing, in the beginning, God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.
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There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
