Laws Quotes · Page 28

“In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.”

— Norris Henderson

There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

— Sally Yates

If the federal government will not enforce the immigration laws, our state and local law enforcement should be empowered to do so.

— Tommy Tuberville

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

— Jonathan Swift

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

— Voltaire

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

— Francis Bacon

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

— Charles Darwin

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

“Over the years there also has been a transitional shift of labour legislations being exclusively employee oriented to advanced socio-economic lex of…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

You're born absolutely free except for laws of nature, if you drink you get drunk, that's a law, if you get old…

— Doug Stanhope

I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going…

— John Boehner

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks…

— David Mitchell

Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human…

— Levi Woodbury

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the…

— William Shenstone

When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the…

— Sharon Kay Penman

Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.

— Luke Harding

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

— Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

— Aristophanes

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.

— Brock Yates

“What shall light us to murder & defile if by some chance the Laws of the State happen to get turned off?”

— Kenneth Patchen

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

— Edward Coke

If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.

— Otto von Bismarck

I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.

— John Hickenlooper

Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.

— Adam Cohen

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can…

— Abraham Lincoln

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

— Heather Brooke

When we see some of these pieces of legislation that want to eliminate single-family zoning in California, that's wrong.

— Kevin Faulconer

The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

— Edward Snowden

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination…

— Franklin Pierce

I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws.

— Raul Labrador

It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel…

— Richard Dawkins

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

— Sammy Sosa

“Although a legal system is rooted in the values of its society, it also has an independent dynamic, with principles, language, and…

— Joel P. Trachtman

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

— Julius Caesar

For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose…

— Thomas Hobbes