The idea that laws don't apply to the law-makers is for despotic regimes. — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
The NDAA is one of the most significant laws Congress takes on each year. — George Santos Copy Share Image
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal… — David Frost Copy Share Image
I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed… — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education. — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
“We have a problem when the same people who make the law get to decide whether or not they themselves have broken… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.--Mark Twain” — Andi Marquette Copy Share Image
Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world. — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
“No laws: to break, or to follow. Do anything you want. Which does funny things to you. Very quickly, surprisingly quickly, you… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“RULES OF FAIRYLAND-BELOW BEWARE OF DOG ANYTHING IMPORTANT COMES IN THREES AND SIXES DO NOT STEAL QUEENS A GIRL IN THE WILD… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The spirit of the law is the least of the things we're prepared to violate. — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
“When a government becomes unjust, honor is often found among the lawless.” — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“No one is free of guilt, for the law is not subject to belief in it.” — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force. — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image