Law Quotes
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What is the argument on the other side? Only this, that no case has been found in which it has been done before. That argument does not appeal to me in the least. If we never do anything which has not been done before, we shall never get anywhere. The law will stand still whilst the rest of the world goes on; and that will be bad for both.
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Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
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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.
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The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
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Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.
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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.
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The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.
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Walker's Law: There are few things made harder in this world by having money.
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We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
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It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
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There can be no liberty without the law
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Law of Attraction is not punishing you. Law of Attraction is supporting you with evidence of your vibrational frequency.
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Stability in law - particularly constitutional law - is critically important; the Supreme Court would do well to remember that.
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Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.
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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.
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First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.
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A unjust law, is no law at all.
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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.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.
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It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
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The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, and of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.
