Law Quotes
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Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.
Napoleon Hill -
Given Georgetown’s remarkable history, and that of President Healy, this struck me as an appropriate place to talk about the difficult relationship between law enforcement and the communities we are sworn to serve and protect.
James Comey
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Second Law of Committo-Dynamics: The less you enjoy serving on committees, the more likely you are to be pressed to do so.
Charles Issawi -
We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.
Michael Sinnott -
It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.
C. S. Lewis -
Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.
Mahatma Gandhi -
This ridiculous nonsense that human laws are sacred and that if they are not respected and continued we cannot prosper, is the stupidest and most criminal nightmare of the age. Statutes are the last and greatest curse of man, and when destroyed the world will be free. The statute book is a book of laws by which one class of people can safely trespass upon another. Without this book one person would never dare to trespass upon the rights of another. Every statute law is always used to oppose some natural law.
Albert Parsons -
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
John Dryden
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Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a base for terrorists that will target Egypt itself, as well as Jordan and Israel.
Elliott Abrams -
The arbitrary separation of citizens on the basis of race while they are on a public highway is a badge of servitude wholly inconsistent with the civil freedom and the equality before the law established by the Constitution. It cannot be justified upon any legal grounds.
John Marshall Harlan -
Law can only be applied to foreseeable cases.
Friedrich Schiller -
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
Alan Paton -
I went to law school to help people.
Lisa Madigan -
America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
W. H. Auden
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentials and capabilities?
Hom Jay Dinshah -
Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.
Florynce Kennedy -
Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.
Banksy -
I did an episode of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' with Jeff Goldblum, which was fun because I've known him for years.
Ralph Macchio -
The time has come for President Obama to formally rescind his order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and end his irresponsible allegations of injustices at the facility, which operates in a framework that respects the rule of law, keeps terrorists off American soil, and bolsters our national security.
Jason Chaffetz
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If love or non – violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.
Scott Turow -
The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.
John Marshall Harlan -
Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.
Louis Nizer