Law Quotes · Page 132

I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.

— Mitt Romney

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

— Marcus Garvey

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

— Eric Liu

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

— Alexander Pope

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.

— Mason Cooley

I'm so much more than just Angelina [Jolie's] brother. I'm also Jon Voight's son and Billy Bob Thorton's brother-in-law.

— James Haven

What you mean by freedom of speech? Democracy doesn't mean you abuse your country. Sedition has a law in the constitution. You…

— Alok Nath

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a…

— Clint Eastwood

This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.

— Ann Coulter

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on…

— Joshua Slocum

I respect your right to worship Satan, or to worship a tea kettle, or to be a NIMBY, or to be an…

— Chicken John

Become aware of what you are thinking and you will recognize a law between your mood and your surrounding circumstances.

— Neville Goddard

“[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and…

— Plato

“Driving back to Brady, Mattie said, “A license to practice law is a powerful tool, Samantha, when it’s used to help little…

— John Grisham

Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges,…

— A. Philip Randolph

The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

From the beginning, there has been a tension in the reception of the Kantian idea of autonomy. If you emphasize the 'nomos'…

— Allen W. Wood

We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That's what we said. Two things were told to us: To be…

— Oren Lyons

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . .…

— Noah Webster

“The facts were strongly behind his client. But the legal battle could be drawn out for months; no one stood to gain…

— Ghandi Palanithurai

Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.

— Chris Matthews

True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.

— Betsy Hodges

“Those who forsake the law  g praise the wicked,         but those who keep the law  h strive against them.”

— Anonymous

The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

— Edward Snowden

I know that I cannot take responsibility for other people. We are all under the law of our own consciousness.

— Louise Hay

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

— Andre Gide

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.

— William Shakespeare

San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.

— Johnny Cash

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it

— Douglas William Jerrold

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

— George William Russell

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

— Barack Obama

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

— Dan Brown

The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.

— William K. Black

I decided that I'm not going to pound my fist anymore at those folks and at laws that I can't change.

— Larry Gatlin

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

— Herman Boerhaave