Law Quotes · Page 167

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

— Honore de Balzac

We must never stop pushing for equal protection under the law in Pennsylvania and across the country.

— John Fetterman

Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

— W. S. Gilbert

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

— Chris Hayes

I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my…

— Laura Wasser

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

— Jimmy Connors

Maybe I shouldn’t mouth off to the elemental I kinda hoped was my future mother-in-law.

— Kiersten White

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

— Anonymous

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

President Obama's healthcare law is hated and loved by some so much that they are willing to shut down the government over…

— Harry Enten

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

— Mary Baker Eddy

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if…

— Booth Tarkington

We engaged stakeholders on important issues in community safety and provided a commonsense path forward on facial recognition technology for law enforcement…

— Glenn Youngkin

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or…

— Bernard Bailyn

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international…

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral…

— George Washington

The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and…

— Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Death must obliterate all memories and affections and ideas and laws, or the awakening in the next world will be amid the…

— Randolph Sinks Foster

Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King…

— John Dickinson

Now think about the Universal Law. It reflects to you exactly and precisely what you put out. If your thought-forms say, "I…

— Stuart Wilde

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Judges give judgment according to their own advantage, doing manifest wrong to poor innocents to please others. Notaries alter sentences, and for…

— Robert Burton

“Is representation everything? Of course not. Just because I’m a woman, it doesn’t mean I’d be a good President for women. (I…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature…

— Henri Poincare

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

— Chris Stewart

Courts are too distant from the communities they put on trial.

— David Lammy

White nationalist groups have infiltrated federal and local law enforcement agencies.

— Cori Bush

“Journalists must uphold democracy; they are its fourth and last pillar”

— Those Facts

I've always held myself to a higher standard, whether I was in law enforcement, whether I was in the military.

— Mike Parson

Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.

— Robert Bork

Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

— Anonymous

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

— David Mitchell

The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth

— Jagadish Chandra Bose

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

— Thomas Hobbes

Being a son, brother, uncle and brother-in-law is all I care about.

— Chris Burke

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.

— Nigel Farage

“Laws and ethics are what make an army or a navy something different than a mob of assholes with guns.”

— Elliott Kay

“This is the paradox: it is against the law to defraud some one but legal, and highly lucrative, to defraud every one.”

— Wes Henricksen

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

— Thomas Hobbes