Law Quotes · Page 134

Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?

— Timothy Noah

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.

— Clara Jeffery

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

— Walter Scott

The law operates by faith. If you believe, no effort is necessary to see the fulfillment of your every desire.

— Neville Goddard

I simply apply the law fairly and equally to all our citizens.

— Luther Strange

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can…

— Abraham Lincoln

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

— Heather Brooke

You know, with the funeral home, that is my artistic outlet where I can paint and play with science and bodies and…

— Phaedra Parks

We are going to take care of our law enforcement because in some ways that's going hand in hand now more and…

— Donald Trump

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care…

— George Soros

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

— Thomas Jefferson

The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle.

— Rod Lurie

Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by…

— Marjane Satrapi

Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and…

— Walter Pater

First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a…

— Bobby Jindal

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was…

— Brigham Young

Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of…

— Albert Einstein

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great;…

— Andrew Carnegie

Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you…

— Howard Zinn

On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank…

— Louis Kronenberger

Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn…

— Jeanette Winterson

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole…

— Dan Rather

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

— Antonin Scalia

“Delays in the completion of legal process need to be made accountable as a crime itself.”

— Bhuwan Ribhu

I've never played an attorney, and I'd like to do so on a show like 'The Practice' or 'Law & Order.'

— Juliet Landau

“The statement 'I thought he was reaching for a gun' is a police officers license to kill.”

— Steven Magee

“Well tonight we’re passing an amendment. I call it Jander’s Law.”

— Henry V. O'Neil

As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.

— John Catsimatidis

“It is a truism among lawyers that the practice of law would be great were it not for the clients. And”

— William L. Myers Jr

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

— Charles Darwin

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

— Louis D. Brandeis

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.

— Paul Klee

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

— Baron de Montesquieu

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

— George Washington

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

— Immanuel Kant

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.

— Norman Davies

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

— Bill Nye