Law Quotes · Page 155

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of…

— Bob Dylan

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

— John Adams

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

— Isabel Paterson

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

— Tom Colicchio

The friendships I made on 'L.A. Law,' with the cast and Steven Bochco and David Kelley were really wonderful.

— Jimmy Smits

“Smart people video record their interactions with police officers.”

— Steven Magee

Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree…

— Benjamin Carson

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

— Anonymous

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash…

— Kevin Mitnick

Undoubtedly, Mexico's crime-related problems have become a focus of attention among lawmakers, law enforcement, and the media in the United States.

— Denise Dresser

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very…

— Marjorie Liu

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is…

— Anonymous

Too much law was too much government; and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in…

— Woodrow T Wilson

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is…

— Charles Grandison Finney

Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as…

— Jim C. Hines

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

— Bernhard Schlink

The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties…

— John Lighton Synge

Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates…

— Khalil Gibran

I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an…

— Alan Dershowitz

To rightly recognize that men and women are equal under the law is perfectly removed from the fact that men and women…

— Gad Saad

When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of…

— Mehcad Brooks

Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are…

— Noah Feldman

What could the Lord Jesus Christ have done for you more than he has? Then do not abuse his mercy, but let…

— George Whitefield

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

— Ambrose Bierce

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

— Henry David Thoreau

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved…

— Susan B. Anthony

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

— James A. Garfield

We Brits are law abiding folk. We pride ourselves on our natural tendency to form an orderly queue rather than a scrum.

— Nick Boles

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

— Teresa of Avila

Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

— Malorie Blackman

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

— Henny Youngman

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

— Robert Lanza

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

— Louis Dudek

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

— Elizabeth Lesser

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

— Stephen Hawking

As attorney general, I don't get to pick and choose the laws I like and don't like.

— Luther Strange