Law Quotes
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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'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
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If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.
William Jennings Bryan
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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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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
Heraclitus
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Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers - not competitors.
Marvin Ammori
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That which is not just is not law.
William Lloyd Garrison
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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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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
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The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.
Morgan Freeman
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We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
Martin Luther
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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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Here at home, for goodness's sakes, we have to finally pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in the United States of America.
Hillary Clinton
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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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To set a trap for a handful of promiscuous individuals, the Zina law has laid a minefield for women in difficult circumstances.
Asma Jahangir
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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Thomas More
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If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries.
Dave Brat
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I am descended from Irish immigrants. A century ago, the Irish knew well how American society-and law enforcement-viewed them: as drunks, ruffians, and criminals. Law enforcement’s biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.'
James Comey
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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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What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.
Catherine Booth
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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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Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.
Francis Bacon
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Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?
William Shakespeare