Law Quotes · Page 119

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

— Edward Coke

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

— Paul Ricoeur

Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.

— Charice Pempengco

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

— George Will

I know for me, when I'm on the court I'm totally different than when I'm off of the court.

— Rasheed Wallace

I quit law school in 1990 and started doing stand up in Boston.

— Sam Seder

I want to study law, become a lawyer, and work in Afghanistan for human rights.

— Sonita Alizadeh

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than…

— Gina McCarthy

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences…

— Seneca the Younger

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

— S. I. Hayakawa

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we…

— Frances E. Willard

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every…

— Jeremy Bentham

By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

It confirms my idea that you also need more liberal gun laws. Guns lead to a polite society, as we like to…

— Ann Coulter

By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to…

— Thomas Jefferson

All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes…

— The Catholic Church

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

— William Dunbar

We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted…

— Robert Kennedy

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal…

— James Bovard

We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience…

— Paul Castellano

We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who…

— Mark Durie

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial…

— Alan Brien

'Street Legal' is like a cult classic. It's pretty cheesy at times, but you learn to embrace it.

— Kurt Vile

What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

— Bill Maher

America and Mexico are both a nation of immigrants and we are a nation of laws and we can act accordingly.

— Hillary Clinton

People are unwilling to enforce the laws on the books. Instead, they make more laws. Why can't we get this right?

— Kathy Szeliga

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

— Solon

Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.

— Wayne LaPierre

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account

— Tony Abbott

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

— Thomas Aquinas

While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law.

— Paul Ryan

You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in…

— Chris Rock

It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.

— Bruce Schneier

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

— Paul Hawken

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

— Marty Meehan

No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

— John Marshall

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have to respect the Turkish Republic's laws

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan