Law Quotes
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Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.
Florynce Kennedy
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You don't want another Enron? Here's the law: If you have a company, and it can't explain, in one sentence... what it does... it's illegal!
Lewis Black
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The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability of other countries to determine their own destiny and preserve their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Things are not something that we can set aside.
Barack Obama
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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
John Stuart Mill
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The law is a powerful thing but the law doesn't always change what's in people's hearts. And so all of us have an obligation to think about how we're treating other people.
Barack Obama
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No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.
Anthony Trollope
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I'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.
Ken Cuccinelli
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Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.
Scott Turow
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Anarchy is the natural law, instead of the man-made statute, and gives men leaders in the place of slave drivers and bosses.
Albert Parsons
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If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Denis Diderot
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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
Agnes Smedley
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Had it not been for the groundswell of support by the people of India, we would not have seen such a huge exercise of demonetisation bounce off without a single riot or a single law and order issue.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.
Bill Maher
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Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.
Attila the Hun
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Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.
D. H. Lawrence
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It is idle to hope for the enforcement of a law where nineteen-twentieths of the people do not believe in the justice of its provisions.
Edmund Morris
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After graduating from Brown, I went to law school and became a corporate lawyer in New York City.
Andrew Yan
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No man is above the law.
William H. Pryor
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If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.
Justin Amash
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Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.
Charles Dickens