Law Quotes · Page 145

It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.

— Janet Reno

Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism.

— Ilana Mercer

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.

— Claude Debussy

We see every day that our very laws have both sides of the fence.

— Jerry Jones

“The police should never harass a police corruption researcher!”

— Steven Magee

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

— Sara Sheridan

We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.

— Panayiotis Zavos

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies…

— Henry Cuellar

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) appears to have matured into a corporate government department that strips workers of their legal rights…

— Steven Magee

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body…

— Charlotte Bronte

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

— Joseph Farah

Unanimity is important because it signals that the justices can rise above their differences and interpret the law without partisanship.

— Neal Katyal

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It's really tough for the small farmer to have a successful business. That is the big challenge - all the laws are…

— Robert Kenner

It is impossible to swear an oath to the German Basic Law without realizing that our constitution is among the most liberal…

— Martin Schulz

As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself…

— John Adams

I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with…

— Michael Moore

For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it,…

— John Locke

“But that's always a certain way to recognise a facist: when he's more powerful he kills everything that's different from him, he…

— Andrej Nikolaidis

We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that…

— John J. Raskob

And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there…

— Wendy Mass

Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Catherine Aird

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

— Victor Hugo

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

Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.

— Anonymous

When I am on court, I am so focused on what I am doing, that's all I think about - trying to…

— Caroline Wozniacki

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

— George H. W. Bush