We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun?… — Homer Copy Share Image
The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
“Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men? “Not to suck up Drink; that is the Law.… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
I went to college and law school with the help of the GI Bill. That experience moved me so much, I dedicated… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
“When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We lump together all things that are beyond the capacity of all of us collectively to understand-and one name we give to… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Being afraid on the court, means you're not confident of your skills — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws. — John Dingell Copy Share Image
There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of… — Marion Kirkland Reid Copy Share Image
In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality.… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know,… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In Confucian thought, individuals practice moral virtue both by restraining themselves and pursuing their own interests. This is a dual push-and-pull process.… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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