Law Quotes
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Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.
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A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
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When I was a kid, I thought I would be an entrepreneur and maybe at some point go into law school.
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Trying to enforce our out-of-touch laws is as foolish and impossible as trying to enforce a law requiring that water flow uphill.
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Upon the gallows hung a wretch, Too sullied for the hell To which the law entitled him. As nature’s curtain fell The one who bore him tottered in, For this was woman’s son. '’T was all I had,' she stricken gasped; Oh, what a livid boon!
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The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
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I'm against having a Fed. It's socialism in its worst form. But until the Fed is gotten rid of, the only economic variable the poor have to counteract the injustices of the Fed is the minimum wage law.
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But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.
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There is a higher law than the Constitution.
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We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.
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Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.
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I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.
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Possession is eleven points in the law.
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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.
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The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.
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We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.
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It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
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I think one of the brilliant parts of our democracy is how resilient it is. We are each allowed to have our own beliefs and, as long as we follow the rule of law, we can express them however we'd like. This is a unique characteristic of the best democracies and one I value tremendously.
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I suggest to you tonight that if George Bush had selected the Supreme court in '54, Clarence Thomas would have never got to law school.
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I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.
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Law is the safest helmet.
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The first fundamental law of the universe is the law of three forces, of three principles, or , as it is often called, the law of three. According to this law every action, every phenomenon in all worlds without exception, is the result of a simultaneous action of three forces- the positive, the negative, and the neutralizing.
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I adhere to the law of chastity because I don’t believe in pushing women. That’s what it means to be a man. I don’t hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely as unchaste behavior. True men don’t indulge in either. We don’t need to.
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The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
