Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abu Bakar Bashir

Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

Abraham Lincoln

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

Abraham Lincoln

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

Abraham Lincoln

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

Abraham Lincoln

When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

Abraham Lincoln

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

Abraham Lincoln

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

Abraham Lincoln

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

Abraham Lincoln

Laws change; people die; the land remains.

Abraham Lincoln

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

Allan Bloom

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

Ann Druyan

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

Ann Coulter

In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.

Ann Coulter

In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws.

Ann Coulter

Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.

Aeschines

Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws.

Aeschines

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

Aesop

Necessity knows no law.

Abraham Lincoln

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Abraham Lincoln

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

Abraham Lincoln

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

We've briefed a top barrister in constitutional law and we're ready to go.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

Aleister Crowley

There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

Aleister Crowley

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Aleister Crowley

It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.

Aleister Crowley

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

Alberto Moravia

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

Albert Einstein

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.