Law Quotes · Page 136

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“Though,' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative.”

— Catherine Aird

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

— Anonymous

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

— Richard Lewontin

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

— Lorraine Toussaint

The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.

— Anonymous

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

— Ayn Rand

God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or…

— Brigham Young

The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my…

— Michael Gove

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the…

— Anonymous

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law…

— Marc Andreessen

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its…

— Flora Thompson

When I came home after my statutory term as surgeon general, I just resumed my life here in southern Arizona. Teaching at…

— Richard Carmona

The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition.

— David Novak

A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun…

— Charlton Heston

For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow…

— Umar

A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing,…

— Joe Arpaio

It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on…

— Ann Widdecombe

One of the things big law partners say when they talk about Atrium is that we get people who wouldn't make partner.…

— Justin Kan

I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now,…

— Foster Friess

The law exists for lots of reasons. In the case of migration, the law exists to maintain the integrity of America. We…

— Rush Limbaugh

None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that,…

— Mehdi Hasan

Historically, international law lent a measure of legality to the colonial system, and allowed the West to set the rules for participation…

— Richard A. Falk

As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them,…

— Leo Tolstoy

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When you know the law, you're above the law. When you break the law, you're under the law.

— KRS-One

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

— John Kennedy

There is no such thing as a dumb question, only dumb law students.

— Anonymous

The world is the court of God. The criminal is God; the punisher is God; man serves the sentence.

— Kedar Joshi

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

— H. L. Mencken

I am for an immigration policy that's welcoming and upholds the law.

— George H. W. Bush

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

— Jack London

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

— Zephyr Teachout

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

— Diane Abbott

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

— Ralph Nader

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

— Thomas Sowell

We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order.

— Donald Trump

The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.

— Allen Toussaint

“We must abandon our belief that human choice denigrates the Rule of Law.”

— Philip K. Howard