Laws Quotes · Page 32

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

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

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

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

— John Boehner

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

— Levi Woodbury

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

— David Mitchell

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

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

If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at…

— John Dingell

Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.

— Cullen Hightower

In some cases, companies may think it's worth the cost of doing business to risk violating privacy laws.

— Lina Khan

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those…

— Gary Sheffield

Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.

— Anonymous

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

— Anonymous

When you know the law, you're above the law. When you break the law, you're under the law.

— KRS-One

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

— Diane Abbott

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

— Thomas Sowell

There is no purging. We are following federal laws to keep our voting rolls clean. That word, purging, is outrageous.

— Brian Kemp

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the…

— Anonymous

It is quite wrong that one group of people should regularly and deliberately flout the law, boast about it and get away…

— Ann Widdecombe

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

— Julian McMahon

Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

— Solon

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

— Anonymous

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by…

— Demonax The Cynic

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

— Hermann von Helmholtz

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.

— John Howard Griffin

I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.

— Charles Duhigg

“Bending the law is different from breaking, my lovely, strategically-challenged Francesca.”

— Roxanne Snopek

Charged with faithfully executing the laws, the president is, in effect, the nation's highest law enforcement officer.

— George T. Conway III

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.

— James Stockdale

The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“If we want people to have respect for the law, then we must first make the law respectable, son.”

— Ashwin Sanghi