Law Quotes
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Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.
Bill Clinton
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What the hell is happening to the world when those who were at the origin of... international humanitarian law start questioning in public debates whether it has any relevance or should be respected?
Peter Maurer
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WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.
Walt Whitman
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Behind every bad law, a deep fear.
Sarah Vowell
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Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.
Catherine Jinks
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In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.
Nick Xenophon
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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
William E. Gladstone
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Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.
George Washington
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No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
Isabel Paterson
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I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.
Ken Livingstone
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You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of any state to preserve and protect its own territoriality.
Judith Butler
