Law Quotes · Page 123

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

— John Mortimer

don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.

— Lisa Scottoline

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

— Thomas Jefferson

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is…

— George MacDonald

No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.

— Li Keqiang

Law 31: Control the options: get others to play with the cards you deal.

— The 48 Laws Of Power

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

— Louis Agassiz

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The lack of stringent laws and the inefficient prosecution of perpetrators have made it increasingly difficult for victims and their families to…

— Oche Otorkpa

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters…

— Jack Cade

I worry that there has been a perception in the market that businesses can sometimes get a free pass if they're too…

— Lina Khan

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is…

— John F. Kennedy

To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and…

— Mike DeWine

When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough…

— Marianne Williamson

When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you…

— Confucius

I've worked in the gay clubs in Moscow, and the big cities. They're much more tolerant. It's the small cities where you…

— Amanda Lepore

A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of…

— Joseph Kastein

The power of these recommendations is that they come from leaders representing a broad spectrum of religious conviction. At the table were…

— Charles Haynes

Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel…

— Alafair Burke

I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived…

— Anonymous

In the heart of every lawyer, worthy of the name, there burns a deep ambition so to bear himself that the profession…

— John W. Davis

The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise…

— J. C. Ryle

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

— Timothy Keller

Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.

— Arun Jaitley

I practise law almost every day. Exclusively criminal work these days.

— Scott Turow

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

— Edward Coke

I work with so many levels of British law enforcement, I never know who is working for whom.

— Bill Browder

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

— Bhagat Singh

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

— Nigel Farage

It is imperative that state and local jurisdictions not scrimp on investing in law enforcement.

— William Barr

“In violation of any given law, first you must understand it, and then keep it.”

— Rita A. Barnes

The rule of law that China's dissidents ask for is important to U.S. businesses investing in China as well.

— Tom Malinowski

I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal…

— Immanuel Kant

Were I confirmed as a judge, I would decide cases according to the rule of law beginning to end.

— Amy Coney Barrett

The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.

— David K. Bernard

The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.

— Robert Bork

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

— Edward Bond

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

— Denis Healey