Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boss Tweed

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Bashar al-Assad

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Benjamin Disraeli

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Bill James

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Elihu Root

I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Katharine Armstrong

The priorities would have remained the same ? first medical care, then law enforcement alert.

Dale Carnegie

There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law, if obeyed, will bring us countless friends and constant happiness. But the very instant we break the law, we shall get into endless trouble. The law is this: Always make the other person feel important.

Brad Thor

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Samuel Alito

If you want know what sort of a justice I would make, then look at what sort of a judge I have been.

Susan Sontag

Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

Rashida Jones

I feel like until you show every side, you're not doing the gender justice.

Rashida Jones

If you feel like you can't actually do the right thing and you're headed off into the field of justice, maybe there's no point in going into it.

Randy Barnett

Given her lack of experience, does anyone doubt that Ms. Miers's only qualification to be a Supreme Court justice is her close connection to the president? Would the president have ever picked her if she had not been his lawyer, his close confidante, and his adviser?

Thomas Jefferson

We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.

Thomas Jefferson

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

Tony Abbott

It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Roy Oswalt

They pay you to pitch and that's what I'm going to do.

Vanna Bonta

Pay me for my work, but I dont do it for the money

Suzanne Collins

Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

Stephen King

Some things it don't pay to be curious about.

Stephen King

Pay and the story rolls, .. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

Sonam Kapoor

I don’t spend much because a lot of it is freebies. Though, usually, I pay.

Sylvia Plath

Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

Ronald Burkle

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.