Law Quotes · Page 90

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains…

— Thomas Jefferson

“These businessmen, however, desired more than the simple elimination of imprisonment for defaulting debtors. They wanted a bankruptcy law that would abolish…

— Robert J. Rayback

The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on…

— Andrea Dworkin

“No doubt you’ve heard the phrase 'ignorance of the law is no excuse’, and are probably familiar with the statist meaning of…

— Starchild

In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call…

— Larry Trask

God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a…

— Ayn Rand

When I step on the court, there's nothing - I never think about anything other than competing.

— Ajla Tomljanovic

The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in…

— David Malpass

The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme…

— Alexander Hamilton

The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and…

— Annie Besant

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs…

— Dick Thornburgh

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

— Ted Nugent

We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received…

— Jose Ramos-Horta

In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together…

— Robert Mueller

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate…

— John Frohnmayer

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

— Mason Cooley

The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for…

— Arundhati Roy

One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential…

— John Paul Stevens

I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me…

— David Milch

Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.

— William J. Clinton

I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their…

— Helen Van Slyke

Anita Hill thanklessly put herself and her career as a law professor on the line more than 25 years ago to publicly…

— Tarana Burke

What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life…

— Albert Schweitzer

I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people…

— Ronald Reagan

I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a…

— Paula Poundstone

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition…

— Jacques Derrida

If you are going to stand for the rule of law, if you are going to raise your hand and support the…

— Darryl Glenn

The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.

— Kurt Gödel

During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a…

— Greg Abbott

Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe.…

— Sharon Salzberg

Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

— Ian Botham

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

— Scott Turow

Children are weird. I was going to say 'most children,' but I think this a rare universal law.

— Rumaan Alam

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not…

— Alexander Herzen

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

— Terence

Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.

— Cullen Hightower

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by…

— Kenneth Waltz

You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe.

— Wallace D. Wattles