Law Quotes
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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.
Stephen Fry
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Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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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.
Eric Holder
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
Thomas More
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In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.
John Calvin
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
Will Durant
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Only law can give us freedom.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law.
Gautama Buddha
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A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.
Brigham Young
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Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.
Martin Luther
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Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.
Nikki Haley
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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...
Brigham Young
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I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.
Errol White
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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.
Benjamin L. Corey
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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Don't be afraid of me. I'm a law maker I'm not a law breaker.
Geert Wilders
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The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had refused to subject Allegra to the sentence. But Mimi was a different matter. Mimi walked out of the church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him.
Melissa de la Cruz
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The royal family are protected from public accountability by law.
Heather Brooke
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
Rudyard Kipling
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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.
Esther Dyson
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Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.
Martin Luther
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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
Ray Bradbury
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The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.
Gautama Buddha
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We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec