Quotes about la
law limits citizens
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits. Thomas Jefferson
law force difficulty
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
law giving arbitrary
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.
law keys may
[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the express words of the law.
law tyrants inalienable-rights
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
law rights voting
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.
law giving liberty
Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.
law justice judging
If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.
law england crime
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it. Thomas Francis Meagher
law perfect firsts
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. Thomas Jordan Jarvis
law action bases
Respect for the law must be the basis for all legal action. Viktor Yushchenko
law limits being-true
Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true. Vilfredo Pareto
law phrases libertarian
Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that law of which the person using the phrase approves[....]
law tomorrow ifs
All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . . Victoria Woodhull
law natural-justice demand
Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands. Victor Cousin
law agriculture political
Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or gardeners; or in the corporate interest of cheap labor in the hospitality industries, agriculture, and construction; or in the political sense of new liberal constituents; or in the tribal sense of expanding the so-called La Raza base. But the vast majority of Americans accept that when federal law is ignored, chaos ensues. Victor Davis Hanson
law race hatred
The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who. Victor Hugo
law boredom submit
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
law doe death-penalty
What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
law causes study
Study carefully the law of cause and effect. Vernon Howard
law laws-of-life obedience
Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love. Stephen Covey
law judging people
The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law. Vaclav Havel
law ideas honor
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law. V. S. Naipaul
law opposites action
It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
law people globalization
It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people. Tarja Halonen
law phones tire
Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire. Sophie Kinsella
law support
Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them. Sophocles
law facts duty
I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them. Stephanie Tubbs Jones
law people broadway
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that. Stanley Tucci
law practice common-sense
Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue. Sophie Swetchine
law ham sandwiches
A grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted. Sol Wachtler
law
Is everything right because the law allows it? Solomon Northup
law justice slavery
I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;