Law Quotes
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Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious
Hugo Black
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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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Ideas exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws.
Charles Brockden Brown
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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Bill Vaughan
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The goal is the developed Kingdom of god, the New Jerusalem, a world order under god's law.
R.J. Rushdoony
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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Thomas More
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The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.
John Calvin
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
William Golding
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When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people. And when we uphold the rule of law it provides a powerful alternative to the twisted worldview offered by al-Qa'ida.
John O. Brennan
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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
J. G. Holland
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Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Law is a very addictive profession.
George Carman
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I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried to sue them for throwing her out of the theatre; it was that they took the law and used it to arrest her. That was really shocking to me. We had no laws in Canada actually requiring segregation, like they did in the United States. But here we had people using the law - the amusements tax act - to enforce segregation, and our courts allowed them to do that.
Constance Backhouse
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There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.
John Ruskin
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We must try to understand the true weight of law enforcement officers' burdens.
Janet Reno
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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.
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
Jesse Jackson
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We got Defense of Marriage Act as a federal law from President Bill Clinton. And it was passed with bipartisan support.
Kellyanne Conway
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Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
Bobby Scott
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First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.
Boris Beizer
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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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The law in this country does more to protect Nazis than to bring them to justice.
Efraim Zuroff
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That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.
Ivo Andric