Quotes about law
law political association
A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe. This results from every political association. Alexander Hamilton
law republic sacred
What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws. Alexander Hamilton
law littles action
Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed? Alexander Hamilton
law repeat sale
We want the repeat sale to show one thing: breaches in the law ... will be corrected, Viktor Yushchenko
law people secret
The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people. Adolf Loos
law democracy abiding
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. Adlai E. Stevenson
law common-sense common
The law of common sense. Sophie Swetchine
law world energy
The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy. Alexander MacLaren
law giving literature
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. Alexander Pope
law judging may
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. Alexander Pope
law criticism demand
I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause. Alexander Pope
law order heaven
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest. Alexander Pope
law may dine
Wretches hang that jurymen may dine. Alexander Pope
law dumb stupid-liberal
We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
law obamacare president
Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
law people justice
Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found "against the evidence," ... the English common law rests upon a bargain between the Law and the people: The jury box is where the people come into the court: The judge watches them and the people watch back. A jury is the place where the bargain is struck. The jury attends in judgment, not only upon the accused, but also upon the justice and the humanity of the Law. E. P. Thompson
law moral constitution
The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them. E. Stanley Jones
law diversity language
The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity. E. O. Wilson
law environmental abnormal
Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself. E. O. Wilson
law erasmus moses
My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. E. M. Forster
law justice may
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. Dorothy Thompson
law complaining speak
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
law liberty way
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law. Dwight D. Eisenhower
law civilization choices
The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law. Dwight D. Eisenhower
law punishment vices
There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent in the act. Doug Stanhope
law drunk ass
You're born absolutely free except for laws of nature, if you drink you get drunk, that's a law, if you get old you die, that's a law too; if you sit on a tack you will bleed from the ass, these are the only laws that you're born with. Doug Stanhope
law scripture ifs
If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18). Douglas Wilson
law rights enforcement
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dorothy Height
law littles mystery
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. Dorothy L. Sayers
law crime
There are crimes which the Law cannot reach. Dorothy L. Sayers
law eleven possession
Possession is eleven points in the law. Colley Cibber
law bird singing
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it. Colleen McCullough
law special states
Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves. Claude Bernard