Law Quotes
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We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.
Mark Zandi
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If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.
John Sentamu
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Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
William James
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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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I believe Islam is superior. And will not be surpassed. So I believe that the law of God is much superior to man-made law.
Anjem Choudary
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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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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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We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.
John O. Brennan
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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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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Thomas More
