Law Quotes
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It is only by maintaining the current law and making it the norm that adoption takes place by married couples and stability for an adopted child can be achieved.
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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'
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He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
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“In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality.”
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History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.
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People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.
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How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
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For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
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The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.
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As in elections, the law pretended universal rights, while securing the interests of powerful houses.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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I was one of the first women partners at my law firm, the first woman in my Minnesota prosecutor job, and the first woman elected from my state to the Senate. So advice from women who had done similar things was important for me.
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...there ought to be a law that we change identities and families every ten years or so.
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Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.
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The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love.
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There have to be consequences for police who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a shift in the use-of-force policies that are used in departments across the country.
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Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.
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In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
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I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
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Ted Cruz, if he's elected president, the first thing he will do is return Don't Ask Don't Tell and roll back same-sex marriage laws. Which is law - hello - you can't really take it away. It's really terrifying the direction we're going in now.
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With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
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When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
