Law Quotes · Page 127

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

— Edward Coke

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

— James A. Garfield

I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.

— James Forman, Jr

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

— Dixie Lee Ray

Leadership means you communicate. It means you believe in transparency and the rule of law.

— Nancy Mace

My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.

— Les Dawson

A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Laws of good intention are really of no use unless there are good people to enforce them.”

— J. Lloyd Morgan

There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war…

— Navi Pillay

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion…

— Taslima Nasrin

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine…

— Brian Greene

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same…

— William H. Seward

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their…

— Anthony Lewis

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve…

— Michel de Montaigne

“The law is put together by a group of people to protect and applied equally to everyone regardless their political, religious or…

— Beta" Metani' Marashi

The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in…

— Alvin Toffler

The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who…

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

Remember the attorney general is not a member of the president's staff. He's the attorney general of the United States. He's there…

— Patrick Leahy

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom…

— William Dunbar

The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God's knowledge of future events does…

— Maimonides

We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it ("it" in this case being a variety of things: murder,…

— Tod Goldberg

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're…

— Michael D. Barnes

Timothy Batten is an individual of high integrity and has given many years of service to Georgia and to the United States,…

— Saxby Chambliss

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

— Ariana Franklin

“When war makes commerce and commerce is law, profit rules prudence and justice is flawed.”

— Christopher Moore

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

— Howard Zinn

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.

— Warren Zevon

“There is a way to flow and cooperate with universal laws which can be beautiful and kind.”

— Bryant McGill

“As soon as a police officer threatens me with arrest, my internal alarms start going off.”

— Steven Magee

Love is that law that will propel me into helping others realize their God given potential.

— Franklyn James

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

— Charles Evans Hughes

We need a full-court press on personal protection. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

— Wayne LaPierre

Good laws are fair, do not discriminate against any group and are reasonably implementable.

— Rohini Nilekani

Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order...

— Thomas Paine

Business people have always liked my administration because we gave the best law and order.

— Mayawati

“Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.”

— Otto von Bismark

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

— George Washington

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

— Harold H. Greene

The goal is the developed Kingdom of god, the New Jerusalem, a world order under god's law.

— R.J. Rushdoony