Quotes about law
law islam fixed
Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable. Abu Bakar Bashir
law lazy lawyer
How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer. Abraham Lincoln
law errors people
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
law may poor
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. Abraham Lincoln
law may way
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. Abraham Lincoln
law roots fire
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
law quality lines
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
law political reverence
Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation. Abraham Lincoln
law principles negative
The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers. Abraham Lincoln
law land people
Laws change; people die; the land remains. Abraham Lincoln
law people doe
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. Abraham Lincoln
law criminals crime
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
law giving may
Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk. Allan Bloom
law unintended-consequences teach
The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences. Ann Druyan
law united-states world
In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is. Ann Coulter
law justice politics
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
law keys activism
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. Ann Coulter
law unlimited
Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws. Aeschines
law democracy citizens
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. Aeschines
law knows
Necessity knows no law. Aesop
law government justice
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln
law may administration
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
law facts court
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. Abraham Lincoln
law ready top
We've briefed a top barrister in constitutional law and we're ready to go.
law rooms abiding
There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state. Aleksander Kwasniewski
law judging
There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
law morality forget
Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
law grace guilt
There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT! Aleister Crowley
law political politics
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Aleister Crowley
law regulation difficult
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
law assuming herds
Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle Aleister Crowley
law generations inheritance
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. Alberto Moravia
law punishment ideas
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. Albert Einstein