Law Quotes
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English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.
Pete Townshend The Who
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One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.
Marvin Ammori
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If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.
William Jennings Bryan
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Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!
Victor Hugo
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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
H. G. Wells
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There's something quite fascinating with crooks and criminals and all things against the law.
Jason Statham
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Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
Ezra Stiles
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One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.
Vladimir Putin
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When I went back to New Hampshire after graduating from law school, my plan was to go work for a private firm because I had to pay some student loans off and make money and really just be in the private practice of law. Which can be very rewarding.
Kelly Ayotte
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There is no doubt in my mind that Article II limits to a considerable degree the application of the obstruction statutes to the president when he is acting in his capacity as chief law-enforcement officer of the country.
Benjamin Wittes
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When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
William Shakespeare
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.
Aristotle
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If a company allows itself -- in its filtering capability -- to filter terms such as 'democracy' and 'religious freedom,' they will be in violation of U.S. law.
Chris Smith
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Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
Jon Johansen
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You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.
E. A. Bucchianeri
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Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.
Kevin Mitnick
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And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
Charles Dickens
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I thought maybe I should write or study law. I even had the idea to open a flower shop. But I was so fascinated with film, I couldn't stay away.
Vicky Krieps
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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
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A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
Jonathan Swift
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I respect your right to worship Satan, or to worship a tea kettle, or to be a NIMBY, or to be an asshole. There's no law against being an asshole.
Chicken John
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Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
Livy
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The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state....
Robert Frost
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Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.
R.J. Rushdoony