Quotes about law
law broken appearance
The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken. Boss Tweed
law immigration distinction
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it. Barbara Jordan
law mind reform
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. Bashar al-Assad
law essence substance
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence. Baruch Spinoza
law government london
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. Benjamin Disraeli
law congress-and-the-president effort
The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is my duty to enforce such laws.To prevent smuggling, the Coast Card should be greatly strengthened, and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic... It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation. Calvin Coolidge
lawyer shut-up cases
A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case. Alan Dershowitz
law needs lawyer
Sometimes even lawyers need lawyers. Billy Carter
law want masters
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. Brigham Young
law issues people
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. Bill James
law fire broken
If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law? Charles Spurgeon
law america rights
America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God. Dennis Prager
law athens idiot
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit. Aristophanes
law justice mystery
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? Edmund Burke
law jail understanding
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. Elihu Root
law people criticism
Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo 's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at " capitalism " because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word . Eliezer Yudkowsky
law labyrinth cosmos
If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos. Brian Greene
law lines physics
The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics. Brian Greene
law people rubbish
Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law Auberon Waugh
law cities political
...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged. Aristotle
law doubt mind
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want. Eliot Ness
law analogies movement
Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms. Eliphas Levi
law chemistry states
The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed. Dixie Lee Ray
law lawyers meet talking year
Even a year ago I was talking about going to law school. Because the lawyers I know get to meet a lot of different people. Joan Chen
law realize second survival
At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one. Joseph Campbell
law lawyers prevail reached
At some point, the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home. We have reached that point, James Baker
law
At the advisement of law enforcement, we paid,
law stronger opinion
Opinion has ever been stronger than law. Anna Jameson
law maritime several
We think it violates the international maritime law and we have made several representations to the U.S. side,
law nobody turn
To us this is law and nobody can turn back on it.
law ought people
We go after law enforcement where the American people say it ought to be, Larry Craig
law supposed
We just do it that way because we don't think that's the way the law is supposed to be imposed. Scott Ellis
law forever details
Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever. Stephen Jay Gould