There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence. — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern. — Josephine Herbst Copy Share Image
It's hard for people who obey and respect the law to keep their heads from exploding in the face of affronts to… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
When a federal court issues an order against enforcement of a government policy, the ruling traditionally applies only to the plaintiff in… — William Barr Copy Share Image
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know,… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
“Spiritual Laws ensures that every entity will be at the exact place where it has earned the right to be, by all… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If we want corporations to act differently, we have to force them to do so through laws that are fully enforced and… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level… — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“The law should not be a huge and weighty slab which falls upon a man and squashes him into a uniform shape,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We don't have blasphemy laws in England and Wales, and it's not the police's job to enforce non-existent religious blasphemy laws. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. — John Constable Copy Share Image
“Laws are cheap of passage, costly of enforcement. They do not execute themselves.” — Stephen Puleo Copy Share Image
“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.” — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make… — Martin L. Gross Copy Share Image
We are a nation of laws, and we should live by the rule of law. And sometimes we should have a little… — Lois Frankel Copy Share Image
“Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It will not do to say that it is out of woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were… — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as… — Steven Hatfill Copy Share Image
“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
No law is permanent or steady. The law is not made of steel. The law is made by Parliament. It goes to… — Amit Shah Copy Share Image
We want to make legislation; we want to put laws on women's uteruses and whether or not they can protect themselves from… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn't mean sitting around on your… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
“in the course of social evolution, usage precedes law; and that when usage has been well established it becomes law by receiving… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
