Law Quotes · Page 154

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.

— Seth Lloyd

I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an eternity in motion.

— Caroline Myss

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

— Ovid

We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous.

— David Grann

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

— Albert Camus

Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

— Abraham Lincoln

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

— Alphonso Jackson

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law…

— Ron Wyden

“Only the Army conducts an annual assessment, and they appear to do relatively little to analyze the problem, contributions to the problem,…

— Carter F. Smith

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of…

— Jimmy Carter

If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and…

— Walter E. Williams

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing…

— Anonymous

“[W]hen "the rule of law" becomes absolutized and everything is done by the book or the computer, people call out in desperation…

— Alan W. Watts

If President Trump will not remove White House officials who are clearly violating the law, he's not doing his job and this…

— Richard Painter

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job…

— Joseph Barbera

The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art,"…

— George Orwell

They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should…

— Anonymous

It's now up to the states to figure out how they implement that definition of a well-rounded education, in other words, where…

— Elizabeth Blair Lee

All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion.…

— Bart Stupak

A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you…

— Mary Oliver

I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as…

— Robert H. Jackson

Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that…

— Stephen Breyer

Though the laws are regarded as the expression of the peoples will, it is not always that the people start the process…

— T Joseph Benziger

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much…

— Daniel O'Connell

My job is to take the law as it's given to me and enforce it and implement it faithfully.

— Richard Cordray

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

— Dora Russell

Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.

— Pauly Shore

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

— Ludwig von Mises

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

— Anonymous

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament.

— Narendra Modi

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the…

— Anatole France

Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

— Anne Hutchinson

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.

— Ken Dodd

I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

— Frederick Douglass

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

— Alexander Pope

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

— Hermann Hesse

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

— Alan Dershowitz