A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Laws are there for a reason, and we have an obligation to follow them. — Rod Rosenstein Copy Share Image
It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can… — Solon Copy Share Image
We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis. — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
There used to be very few women in prisons, but this changed with the introduction of the hudood laws. — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
If the American people or Congress agrees with the illegal-alien lobby that deportation is morally abhorrent, the immigration laws should be changed. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections. — Ellen Wittlinger Copy Share Image
The United States has so many laws, into the millions, that experts have lost track of just how many laws we have. — Shaun King Copy Share Image
The entire legal system was built upon the assumption that people would have adequate representation. When they don't, the system fails, and… — Shari Redstone Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is:… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“It has often been suggested to me that the Constitution of the United States is a sufficient safeguard for the freedom of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“So there it was. My big lesson of the day, something I’d take with me and never forget. The whole legal system… — Steve Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Most things were against the rules, so when one old lady across the hall from us fell in her shower, we couldn't… — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely, a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper,… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break — Charles John Darling Copy Share Image
I've carried witty banners against laws that would curtail my freedoms. — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image