Law Quotes
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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
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Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
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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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God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist...
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The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.
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Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.
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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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God's law is God's law, period. Teach your children that.
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The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.
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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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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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I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.
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Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.
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I believe that Muslims that are in our society today are of course equal as anybody else, as long as they adhere to our laws, to our constitution, to our values.
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Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.
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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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To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
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I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
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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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We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.
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Now think about the Universal Law. It reflects to you exactly and precisely what you put out. If your thought-forms say, "I haven't got a clue about what I want," the Universal Law is going to say, "Listen, mate, if you haven't got a clue, neither have I.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
