Law Quotes
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Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.
Lysander Spooner
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Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I often have discussions with people who demand pluralism and much more. One can discuss these issues, but only within the framework of the law.
Nguyen Minh Triet
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The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus.
Joseph Prince
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Our religious liberty was threatened by the Obama administration as part of the Obamacare law. I was in the courtroom when that law was, I think unjustly, held constitutional.
Luther Strange
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Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.
Estelle
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov't.
John Stuart Mill
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My mom was like, 'Get your law degree first, become a lawyer, and then you can tell jokes on the weekends. You can be a lawyer and just throw jokes into your presentations.' Now she's like, 'Listen, you need to come up with new material.' All of a sudden, my mom's a critic.
Maz Jobrani
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
Seneca the Younger
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True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.
William Shakespeare
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I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.
Rufus Choate
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So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.
Aristotle
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The law in this country does more to protect Nazis than to bring them to justice.
Efraim Zuroff
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The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
Jesse Jackson
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There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.
Chris Stewart Genesis
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The light of the years to come, to me; and the law would give them into your charge because you are their mother, no matter what kind of a woman you are.
Christina Stead
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There are two laws discrete Not reconciled, Law for man, and law for thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We have seen a degradation from the highest levels of authority politically in this nation, including through the department of justice, for the rule of law.
Matt Bevin
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Sometimes when I'm writing a superhero story I wonder if they really have to punch each other in the face. Is that really going to solve anything? I feel the same way sometimes when I watch episodes of Law & Order. I'm like, "Yeah, right. You found the sex offender and now everything is fine." TV is big on closure, but I think closure is horseshit in real life. I'm still haunted by stuff I did in my teen years when I think about it too much.
Ed Brubaker
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When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.
John Mica
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A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.
William Jackson
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.
Benjamin McKenzie