Law Quotes · Page 178

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

— John Milton

The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.

— William Powell

“If their rules made sense and sense ruled— If their laws weren’t so brok- en I wouldn’t break ‘em.”

— Roy Duffield

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

— Wayne LaPierre

No one has done more to advance the rule of law than President Trump.

— Scott Pruitt

The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways.

— Eric Holder

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

— Vera Farmiga

You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our…

— Anonymous

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

— Harold S. Geneen

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They…

— Ludwig von Mises

So end-to-end encryption, keeps things encrypted and that means that law enforcement, without a warrant, cannot read that information.

— Rod Beckstrom

It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything…

— Trey Parker

If someone feels they're being maliciously treated, then they should sue for libel. And if someone is malicious, if they are reckless,…

— Simon Singh

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is…

— Daniel Webster

I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived…

— Kathryn Stockett

Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Free, free! what a glorious ring to the word. Free! the bitter heart-struggle was over. Free! the soul could go out to…

— Elizabeth Keckley

The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance…

— Milton Friedman

When we said that no more areas of power should go to the EU we were right. And now thanks to the…

— William Hague

The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in…

— Bertrand Russell

The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The…

— Noam Chomsky

Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works…

— Fred Reed

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

— William Kingdon Clifford

After practicing law for eighteen years, no stories shock or amaze me.

— Phaedra Parks

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

— Hosea Ballou

Love is that law that will propel me into helping others realize their God given potential.

— Franklyn James

BREAKIN' THE LAW! BREAKIN' THE LAAAW! BREAKIN' THE LAW! BREAKIN' THE LAAAW!

— Beavis And Butthead

I have a J.D., but I'm not a practicing attorney as far as entertainment law goes.

— Adrian Younge

If I became president now I would immediately pass a law that makes every citizen a policeman or a soldier.

— Fela Kuti

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

— George Gaylord Simpson

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

— Charles de Secondat

The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy

— John Gay

Happy Father's Day -- or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day.

— Ronan Farrow

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

— Samuel Chase

God's laws are just few, while the human's laws are thousands.

— Anonymous

Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec