Law Quotes
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If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
George Stillman Hillard
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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
Nick Harkaway
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The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
Abraham Lincoln
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I have four priorities. Give back to the French their sovereignty over the French territory, their sovereignty over the currency, their sovereignty over the economy and the law.
Marine Le Pen
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The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven’ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it.
Tertullian
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An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.
Ernst Haeckel
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The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.
Elihu Root
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If Christ cannot supersede the Law, then I am lost, and lost forever.
Catherine Booth
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The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes about the ownership and possession of goods, was, to be a substantial extent, a by-product of that new procedure which had been mainly introduced to perfect the feudal scheme of land law.
Edward Jenks
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Thomas More
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Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.
Gautama Buddha
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I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.
Bill Gates
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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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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
Thomas Carlyle
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The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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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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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
Seneca the Younger
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Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.
Joseph Prince
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I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about efforts to turn religious beliefs into law and those efforts benefit greatly from the conviction that individually and collectively we cannot be good without God.
Wendy Kaminer
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One is not righteous who does much, but the one who, without work, believes much in Christ. The law says, 'Do this,' and it is never done. Grace says, 'Believe in this,' and everything is already done.
Martin Luther
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If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.
Thomas Sowell
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The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law.
Caroline Glick
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But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.
Martin Luther
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe