“For the last time: ‘The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
“Hard cases, it has been frequently observed, are apt to introduce bad law.” — Lord Abinger Copy Share Image
When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
U.S. elections are run by counties, and the laws they follow are set by each state. — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
“The law as it is considered as a rule can be no more abolished or changed than the nature of good and… — Samuel Bolton Copy Share Image
The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage. — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
There is no way to physically always be there for your children and always be at the office and always be present… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
“They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression… — Herman Melville 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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
As attorney general, I don't get to pick and choose the laws I like and don't like. — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
“the fundamental fact that law directs the ongoing of society. It is rooted in the past, determines the present, and protects the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic. — Sammy Sosa Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
When we see some of these pieces of legislation that want to eliminate single-family zoning in California, that's wrong. — Kevin Faulconer Copy Share Image
The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws. — Raul Labrador Copy Share Image
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“What shall light us to murder & defile if by some chance the Laws of the State happen to get turned off?” — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law. — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
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