Law Quotes · Page 119

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

— Washington Irving

The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

— Steve Stockman

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

— Simone Signoret

We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.

— Oren Lyons

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

— John George Nicolay

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

— Honore de Balzac

“Most of them were running away from something―usually the law.”

— Jack Kerouac

“The Jewish system of law is called halacha, the Islamic system is called shar’ia.”

— Harry Freedman

I have had the privilege of working alongside people who have a variety of viewpoints about the law and legal analysis throughout…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a…

— Alan Greenspan

When I'm getting ready to go out, I always watch 'Law & Order' in the bath. As soon as I hear the…

— Scarlett Moffatt

North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the…

— Mel Watt

“Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with…

— Ashly Lorenzana

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is…

— James Madison

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That's the Law of Consistency. It doesn't matter how talented you are. It…

— John C. Maxwell

The prospect that I could actually be a journalist triggered a 'Who do you think you are?' reaction in me. It was…

— Jodi Kantor

Let's put it in perspective at the United States Supreme Court, which hears maybe 60 cases a year, most of the cases…

— Martha Minow

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending…

— Anonymous

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found…

— Jan Schakowsky

Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as…

— Samuel Smiles

“When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his…

— Frédéric Bastiat

Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the…

— Huey Newton

We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may…

— Baron de Montesquieu

When it comes to protecting workers, labour conditions, labour legislation, the rights for collective bargaining, when you look at our environmental standards,…

— Andrew Scheer

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

When I got my first VP title at 26, my parents finally stopped asking when I was going to get my law degree.

— Mindy Grossman

You can't say there is only one way of doing things, the police way of ensuring law and order.

— Mani Ratnam

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

— Tucker Max

The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the…

— Alexander Hamilton

Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his…

— Haidji

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

— Cecil B. DeMille

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

— Carolyn Maloney

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

— Storm Jameson

“As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can’t be just, be arbitrary”

— William S. Burroughs

The greatest law of Sahaja Yoga is that it is a collective happening.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call.

— George W. Bush

Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it.

— George Carlin

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

— Thomas Jefferson

When laws are literally written now to make donors happy, we've got a problem.

— Steve Bullock