Law Quotes

• Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • Law

• For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

  

  Carol Bellamy
  • Children
  • School
  • Age

• I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Believe
  • Advice
  • Independent

• The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

  

  Dick Thornburgh
  • Political
  • Law
  • Support

• The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

  

  Peter Kropotkin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Law

• The Italians have shown consistently that they live by the rule of law. They have given these undertakings and we expect them to abide by them.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Live
  • Italians
  • Abide

• Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Government
  • Moral
  • Values

• Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

  

  Mark Twain
  • God
  • Law

• For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.

  

  John Chrysostom
  • God
  • Men
  • Evil

• If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Law
  • Bound
  • Constrain

• The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.

  

  P. D. James
  • Law

• I will do whatever I can to help my country until my death. At the Senate I try to devise laws that fit in with the way people live, and I give my opinion. And I will always do this, even if I leave the Senate. I will always try and be useful.

  

  Saadi Yacef
  • People
  • Live
  • Country

• A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.

  

  Adrian Cronauer
  • People
  • Law
  • Simple

• Let our law-givers then make haste before it is too late to set apart this surpassingly glorious region for the recreation and well-being of humanity, and all the world will rise up and call them blessed.

  

  John Muir
  • Up
  • World
  • Humanity

• I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

  

  John Fund
  • Law
  • Focus
  • Vision

• The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Freedom
  • Law

• For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.

  

  James Comey
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Law
  • Government
  • Building

• I've been auditioning since I was 20, working as a waiter, getting theater gigs, doing the 'Law and Order's.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • Law

• The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • Political
  • Democracy
  • Independent

• I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality.

  

  Bo Gritz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • High

• In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Great
  • Children
  • Home

• The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.

  

  Kevin Bales
  • People
  • Vulnerable
  • Enslavement

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