Law Quotes
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You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.
Simone Signoret
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Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
Lysander Spooner
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I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.
Edwin Muir
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It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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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Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.
Joseph Prince
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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
Cecil B. DeMille
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
Charles Dickens
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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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According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
Marcel Proust
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There are laws for everything except the harm families do.
Sue Grafton
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My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
Nikola Tesla
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Our government depends upon the rule of law.
Scott Garrett
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He that to nought aspires, doth nothing need;Who breaks no law is subject to no king.
George Chapman
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Common sense often makes a good law.
William O. Douglas
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Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
Jane Austen
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When I was a student, if you accidentally wrote a triad in a piece of yours, it was just sort of like you were breaking the law! You just couldn't do it. And that just meant you were a bad composer.
Max Richter
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
Russell Baker
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I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
Richard Feynman
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Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
Gautama Buddha
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I propose to the Chancellor that... before this legislature is recessed, we make some necessary changes to the weapons law, such as raising the age of ownership for large-caliber weapons from 18 to 21.
Edmund Stoiber
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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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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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We should create law based on the God of the Bible.
Sarah Palin