Law Quotes · Page 400

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and…

— Anonymous

[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with…

— Thomas Edward Thorpe

Facts, when combined with ideas, constitute the greatest force in the world. They are greater than armaments, greater than finance, greater than…

— Carl W. Ackerman

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

— Naoto Kan

The robust English view used to be that the correct response to offensive words is to ignore them, or to answer them…

— Roger Scruton

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and…

— Ada Cambridge

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

— Thomas Keller

The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality…

— Benjamin Wittes

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

As a person committed to human rights and international law and the right of self-determination, I would like to see the occupation…

— Mairead Corrigan

Crucially, the Energy Transition Act does not leave affected workers and neighbors behind. We look out for each other. With this law,…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

Where there is no will, no rules or laws can help.

— Helmut Kohl

But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever…

— Malcolm X

There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Whether you're in bed or in court, everybody gets off.

— Nicole Blackman

The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused…

— Albert Einstein

“For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the…

— Albert Einstein

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil…

— Aaron Swartz

Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media.…

— Edi Rama

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

In the new covenant, God doesn't want us to be blessed when we obey the law and cursed when we fail. Doesn't…

— Joseph Prince

“As a powerful deterrent to natural play, fear of liability ranks right behind the bogeyman. One goal in the fourth frontier should…

— Richard Louv

The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

— R. C. Sproul

If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated…

— George W. Bush

Courts of law require evidence to go to trial - not opinions from bureaucrats.

— Mike Braun

I find these dramas fascinating - it's a world that many of us fortunately don't dip into. The legal system is all…

— Maxine Peake

“When citizens become fearful of being assaulted or killed by police officers, you have a truly dysfunctional law enforcement department!”

— Steven Magee

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

— Fred Allen

“Once victim, always victim-that's the law.”

— Thomas Hardy

I studied law at university and was sort of grooming myself to go into that kind of career. I filmed 'The Wedge'…

— Rebel Wilson

And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical…

— James Clerk Maxwell

The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the…

— Andrew Johnson

I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one…

— Amanda Donohoe

People are always going to disagree politically, because we all come at the law from a different perspective with different needs.

— Dustin Lance Black

The rule of law, and the idea that it applies to everyone regardless of what office that person might hold, is the…

— Eric Swalwell

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

— John Wilmot

Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best.

— John Diamond

Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social…

— James Madison