Law Quotes
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It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
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The grace that brought salvation to you is the same grace that teaches or disciplines you. But you must respond on the basis of grace, not law.
Jerry Bridges
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Max Beerbohm
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Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
Bob Woodward
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I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to law school because I didn't know how to earn a living otherwise. I tried to ignore the pull, but it wouldn't let me.
Elizabeth Strout
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Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the Strand, half way between the historic site of Westminster the historic centre of the commercial capital of the world, there began to grow up, in the minds of reformers, the vision of a great and united Supreme Court of Justice, with uniform principles, uniform law, and uniform procedure.
Edward Jenks
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If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.
John Ruskin
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Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
Jerry Bridges
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Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome. The law creates the world.
Brenna Yovanoff
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As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.
John Catsimatidis
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A foundation of our American way of life is our national respect for law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
Charles Darling
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There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
George William Russell
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Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?
William Powell
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Leave it to the Indians to have meditated upon and figured out the laws of the Universe. Leave it to the Americans to either change those laws, have us escape into another Universe with different laws, or create that other Universe if it doesn't exist already !
Gaurav Dagaonkar
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The 1913 law is an artifact of an era of trying to block racial equality. It's serving its mission of discrimination.
Evan Wolfson
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Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law.
John Calvin
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It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.
Edward Jenks
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...there ought to be a law that we change identities and families every ten years or so.
John Updike
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Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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No religious doctrine shall be established by law.
Elbridge Gerry
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Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.
Richard Feynman