Law Quotes · Page 153

After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

— Emma Goldman

Without question, Alabama's House Bill 56 is the most comprehensive anti-illegal-immigration state law ever drafted.

— Kris Kobach

I have an accounting degree and a law degree and had never really used either.

— Cris Collinsworth

My preference is to just be on the court. I just want to play no matter where that is at.

— Paul Millsap

As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part…

— Stevie Wonder

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

— Dan Fogelberg

...the stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence…

— Joe Lieberman

Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.

— George Herbert

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and…

— David E. Kelley

Rather than abide by the rule of law, Maduro and his cronies follow mafia-style practices, intimidating the opposition by targeting their family…

— Morgan Ortagus

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing…

— Anonymous

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be…

— H. L. Mencken

We need people who will strictly interpret the law and not be promoting an agenda, as is the danger right now with…

— Greg Laurie

Everyone who chooses to live in Europe must accept the basic values. This includes the rule of law as well as equality…

— Vera Jourova

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not…

— Thomas Jefferson

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

— Arlen Specter

I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can.…

— Daley Thompson

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is…

— Ludwig von Mises

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by…

— George Bernard Shaw

The situation of women living in Islam-stricken societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled…

— Maryam Namazie

So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to…

— Carl Jung

And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction…

— Terence McKenna

“one of the reasons I'm talking to you now is to tell you that whatever you may be planning, you must not…

— Terry Pratchett

Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to…

— Brad Sherman

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

— Anonymous

There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’ve consequently played a lot of different cops from a lot of different kind of law enforcement agencies.

— Samuel L. Jackson

Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

— Jose Saramago

“Not everything that falls within the law is right. Don’t be trapped into thinking it is.”

— Jane Davis

What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study.

— Hillel the Elder

Our brave law enforcement professionals are a credit to the people of North Carolina.

— Mark Robinson

Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.

— Pete Earley

“Demeter became a “law” because a human being decided so; don’t be fooled by its grandiose name.”

— Sandi Metz

The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.

— Tom Robbins

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

— Stuart Chase

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

— Paul Dickson

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

— Charles Spurgeon

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.

— Sheila Jackson Lee