Law Quotes
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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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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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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.
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The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
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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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When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law.
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It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
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Through this law, Vermont becomes a pioneer for families and equality.
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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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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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The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give.
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So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the will of God must appear to it as a multiplicity of commandments. In actual fact, it is one and indivisible; God wants nothing else except love because He Himself is love.
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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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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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Law of Attraction is Universal, and every person is affected by it. And it is always true that what I think and what I feel and what I get are always a match.
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Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.
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The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
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Our government depends upon the rule of law.
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.
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The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.
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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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The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
