Law Quotes · Page 173

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

— Ellen Wittlinger

The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing.

— Ron Paul

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You could be acquitted at the bar of the court but not at the bar of your conscience.”

— James C. Uwandu

The law does not allow the FTC to just snap its fingers and temporarily block a merger.

— Brett Kavanaugh

Freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law... are universal values of the human spirit.

— Robert C. O'Brien

Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.

— Joan Rivers

This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are…

— Max Planck

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and…

— Carl Sandburg

Obama can show that America's promise of equality not only means that anyone can reach the highest office in the land -…

— Ari Melber

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou…

— James Russell Lowell

It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to…

— Soledad O'Brien

Peace will be restored by enforcing the rules for millions for overstay their visas. Our laws will finally receive the respect that…

— Donald Trump

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws…

— H. Rap Brown

The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land…

— Charles A. Murray

In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They…

— George W. Bush

Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been…

— Bill Nye

Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be…

— Timothy D. Snyder

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft.…

— Anita Shreve

If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but…

— DJ Spooky

Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing…

— Wayne LaPierre

It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be…

— Emmet Fox

The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body…

— Vannevar Bush

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]

— Tacitus

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

— Questlove

Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.

— ASAP Rocky

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

— Roscoe Pound

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

— Boss Tweed

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

— Arthur Baer

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

— Cillian Murphy

The United States has so many laws, into the millions, that experts have lost track of just how many laws we have.

— Shaun King

One day the Constitution of Colorado is the highest law of the state. The next day it’s waste paper.

— Robert F. Williams

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

— David Guterson

I support peaceful protests and the rule of law, and denounce all acts of violence.

— Lauren Boebert

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

— Fisher Ames

Karma is a medicine which is given for our own good. Karma is the law of compensation, not of vengeance.

— Samael Aun Weor

The most important thing to me as a practitioner has been fidelity to my obligations and to the law.

— Eugene Scalia

It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.

— Bernard Darwin

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

— Roger Mahony