Law Quotes

• Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment, securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote, over the Democrats' opposition.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Giving
  • Law

• The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • God
  • Law
  • Democracy

• We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.

  

  Dudley Nichols
  • Children
  • Social
  • Disease

• A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. This, of course, is a fact. Thankfulness does tend to reproduce in kind. The attitude of gratitude revitalizes the entire mental process by activating all other attitudes, thus stimulating creativity.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Art
  • Practice
  • Basic

• Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Power
  • Political
  • Loyalty

• The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.

  

  Han Fei
  • Men
  • Law
  • Intelligent

• Law, without force, is impotent.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Law
  • Force
  • Impotent

• I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.

  

  Kristi Noem
  • Real
  • Law

• Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Men
  • Society
  • Saving

• My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.

  

  John W. Rogers, Jr.
  • World
  • Great
  • School

• The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.

  

  Dmitri Mendeleev
  • Law

• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • School
  • Winning

• The law's the law, but people are people.

  

  M. L. Stedman
  • People
  • Law

• Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Law
  • Environment
  • Fans

• In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

  

  Dirk Kempthorne
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Support

• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Achieve

• Necessity has no law.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Law
  • Necessity

• I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Feeling
  • Law

• Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Law
  • Humanity

• If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Believe
  • Men

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• The law is cruel.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Cruel

• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
  • Stand

• The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Done
  • Law
  • Justice

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