Law Quotes · Page 130

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.

— Ken Dodd

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

— Alan Dershowitz

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

— John Adams

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of…

— Bob Dylan

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

— Alexander Pope

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

— Frederick Douglass

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

— Hermann Hesse

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

— Thorstein Veblen

“First wrong by brow-beater abuses the body of law. And the revenge of brow-beaten announces that there is no law in state.…

— Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The…

— Paul Newman

My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under…

— Garrison Keillor

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo…

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated…

— Thomas Troward

We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a…

— Keith B. Alexander

When I got my law degree and my license to practice here in the District of Columbia, I represented several immigrants who…

— Thomas Hardiman

What we want for the Iranian people is control over their own government, which they don't have now. So you would do…

— John Bolton

Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of…

— John Calvin

“He proved that it was equally true if the disregard was by a ruler or by a people. "It spreads like a…

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever…

— Stefan Zweig

Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as…

— L. Neil Smith

It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that…

— Arianna Huffington

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands.(thus) this sacred…

— Marilou Awiakta

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

— Isabel Paterson

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

— Tom Colicchio

Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree…

— Benjamin Carson

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

— Anonymous

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The friendships I made on 'L.A. Law,' with the cast and Steven Bochco and David Kelley were really wonderful.

— Jimmy Smits

“Smart people video record their interactions with police officers.”

— Steven Magee

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

— Ambrose Bierce

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

— Henry David Thoreau

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved…

— Susan B. Anthony

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

— James A. Garfield

Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

— Malorie Blackman

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

— Henny Youngman

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

— Robert Lanza

We Brits are law abiding folk. We pride ourselves on our natural tendency to form an orderly queue rather than a scrum.

— Nick Boles

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

— Teresa of Avila