Law Quotes
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Giving is only one-half of the law of increase. Receiving is the other half. We can give and give but we may unbalance the law unless we also expect to receive.
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God's law is God's law, period. Teach your children that.
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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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Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.
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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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Through this law, Vermont becomes a pioneer for families and equality.
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If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.
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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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Stability in law - particularly constitutional law - is critically important; the Supreme Court would do well to remember that.
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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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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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The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are?
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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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It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
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I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.
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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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Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.
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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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Those who fit in neatly at church, those who are hyper-focused on the “law” are told to repent, but the sinners, tax collectors, and prostitutes are invited to sit down for dinner, to share a glass of wine, and to build a friendship.
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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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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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To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
