Law Quotes
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The law always limits every power it gives.
David Hume
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The types of ideas protected by intellectual-property law typically don't include a clever catchphrase on a Vine or a film idea in a tweet.
Jenna Wortham
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Homemaking is whatever you make of it. Every day brings satisfaction along with some work which may be frustrating, routine, and unchallenging. But it is the same in the law office, the dispensary, the laboratory, or the store. There is, however, no more important job than homemaking.
James E. Faust
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In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.
Hakuin Ekaku
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I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.
John Grisham
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There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.
Paul Watson
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My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.
David Guterson
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My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
Les Dawson
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Employer sanctions can be a very efficient tool if enforced. The problem is the way the law reads, it's basically a joke. It basically gives employers a huge loophole to walk through.
George J. Borjas
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I was in a university prep school in Canada, and the way that particular place worked was, you chose at a very young age what you were going to do with the rest of your life. Mine was law.
Leslie Hope
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I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
Billie Jean King
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Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We cannot stop senseless violence without the rule of law and security forces that represent and respect every segment of society.
Haider al-Abadi
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The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law has always been the name of that rule or principle of justice, which protects those rights. Thus we speak of natural law.
Lysander Spooner
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I prefer law to war under all circumstances.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.
H. P. Blavatsky
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Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.
Lysander Spooner
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The Obamacare law has failed.
Luther Strange
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The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.
Lysander Spooner
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A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.
Brit Marling
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The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.
Les Dawson
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Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.
Erik Paulsen
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Over the next 40 years, he rose to lead that department. Pop was the tall, strong, silent type, quiet and dignified, and passionate about the rule of law. Back during Prohibition, he heard that bootleggers were running beer through fire hoses between Yonkers and the Bronx.
James Comey
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Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.
Anthony Romero