Law Quotes

• The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I crossed the tracks and sought out White prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically ... Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the White man's law ... and that I was defiling his women ...

  

  Eldridge Cleaver
  • Women
  • Law

• Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

  

  Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Power
  • Law
  • Care

• The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • People
  • American
  • Trust

• One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

  

  John Lescroart
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • People
  • World
  • Car

• A law is a law, and it has to be respected.

  

  Eli Yishai
  • Law

• Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Beauty
  • Should
  • Firsts

• Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Society
  • Law
  • Moral

• We must not approach the observance and enforcement of this law in a vengeful spirit. Its purpose is not to punish. Its purpose is not to divide, but to end divisions - divisions which have all lasted too long. Its purpose is national, not regional.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Long
  • Law
  • Purpose

• You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

  

  Bill McCollum
  • Law
  • Drug

• Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Fall
  • Moral
  • Lust

• Look in; and learn the wrong, and right, From your own soul's unwritten laws. And when you question, or demur, Let Love be your Interpreter.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Soul
  • Question
  • Looks

• Whether it's in Ferguson or Baltimore, the response from senior officials, the president or the attorney general, is to vilify law enforcement. That's wrong. It’s fundamentally wrong. It’s endangering all of our safety and security.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Safety
  • Senior

• Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Good
  • Law

• A million fucking message boards, email, Twitter, any number of free tools, being limited only by time and your imagination? If I’d had the internet in 1988 I WOULD OWN AN ENTIRE COUNTRY BY NOW AND WOULD PUT HUNDREDS OF YOU TO DEATH EACH DAY JUST FOR FUN AND IT WOULD BE THE LAW

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Time
  • Country
  • Fun

• All of us who work in law enforcement want to keep people safe. That is the heart of our jobs; it is what drives us every day.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

  

  John Roberts
  • Law
  • Judge

• Alternatively, the Government proposes that law enforcement agencies 'develop protocols to address' concerns raised by cloud computing. Probably a good idea, but the Founders did not fight a revolution to gain the right to government agency protocols.

  

  John Roberts
  • Good
  • Law
  • Revolution

• Every single American - gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society. It’s a pretty simple proposition.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Society

• There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know, what would Oliver Wendell Holmes have had to say to this.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Law
  • Lines
  • Hey

• The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Lows
  • Legislation
  • Illegal

• If the scope of freedom and respect for the rule of law shrinks around the world, the likelihood of war within and between nations increases, and our own freedoms will eventually be threatened.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • War
  • Freedom

• Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.

  

  Paul Broun
  • Law
  • Ignorance

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