Law Quotes · Page 161

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

— Richard Perle

According to international law, Crimea is Ukraine's. Period.

— Ksenia Sobchak

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

— Anonymous

Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.

— Walter Savage Landor

I have no hesitation in applying a law regardless of what I might think about it.

— Thomas Hardiman

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.

— Clara Jeffery

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for…

— Jim Cooper

No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian…

— Noah Webster

[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of…

— Chris Matthews

Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has…

— Mike Huckabee

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that…

— Oscar Wilde

“Two lawyers who have never met can nevertheless combine efforts to defend a complete stranger because they both believe in the existence…

— Yuval Noah Harari

There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it,…

— Adrian Rogers

It has been claimed by many that Freethought does away with churches, creeds, Christs and even a God. So it does to…

— Etta Semple

Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to…

— Gayle Rubin

“So long as we have a law that is exploitable by individuals in power, it is imperative that every thinking human stands…

— Abhijit Naskar

In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and…

— Cat Stevens

Given our law enforcement authorities, our central role in the Intelligence Community, and the span of our responsibilities - from counterterrorism to…

— Christopher A. Wray

Each case - each story - is interesting in itself. I think that's what 'Law & Order: U.K.' maintains and that's why…

— Paterson Joseph

I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No…

— Henry David Thoreau

Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?

— Timothy Noah

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

— Walter Scott

The law operates by faith. If you believe, no effort is necessary to see the fulfillment of your every desire.

— Neville Goddard

I simply apply the law fairly and equally to all our citizens.

— Luther Strange

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

— Heather Brooke

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can…

— Abraham Lincoln

Law enforcement must be guardians in our communities, not warriors against our own people.

— Cal Cunningham

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.

— Cindy Sheehan

“I’ve come to recognize that questions of law and justice are at the same time questions of power.”

— William T. Vollmann

The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus.

— Joseph Prince

South Korea is a vigorous democracy, with strong judicial institutions and a commitment to the rule of law.

— David Lidington

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws.

— Alexander Hamilton

For the provision of God constantly to be at work in our lives we must activate the laws of God.

— Phil Pringle

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

— Trey Gowdy

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

— Mahmoud Abbas