But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed,… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
“Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true." "Yeah, well, just because the law says it, it doesn't make… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
“The coveted Concept of Deemed, Is certainly not easy as it ever seemed Because it is all mandatory to Accept, No Exceptions… — Priyavrat Thareja Copy Share Image
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are… — Alexander Bickel Copy Share Image
Clearly, a large number of African-Americans don't have faith that the laws are being executed fairly in Ferguson, and that's a problem...… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Yes, agriculture subsidies are far too generous. They need to be reined in because they cater to special interests while distorting free… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
“Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is… — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies… — Louise Slaughter Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order?… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed… — Walter Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The laws are gonna have to change. And it's 2016. We can't keep using all the laws that was made back in… — Rakim Copy Share Image
There is not, and there will not be, any other laws and values in France other than French laws. We will not… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
I've spent enough time in the business community to know there are certain regulators who are very constructive in their approach -… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
The man-made laws have been made by men who have not perceived the final goal towards which they are making. And that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms… — Plato Copy Share Image
Once E.U. law ceases to be supreme it is unclear how this vast body of law, which will then be incorporated into… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“But there are plenty of laws nobody has ever broken. Like gravity, for example. Or morality. Or the law that everyone poops… — Helen Rena Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
