Law Quotes · Page 127

Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.

— Megan Whalen Turner

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

— Learned Hand

Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.

— Sammy Hagar

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

— Thomas Huxley

“God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.”

— Bryan Chapell

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

— Alexander Pope

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

— Sonia Sotomayor

Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.

— Harold Pinter

Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of…

— Ernst Moritz Arndt

Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in…

— Matthew Arnold

Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because…

— Vikram Seth

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should…

— John Linder

Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of themselves…

— Lamb Of God

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they…

— Maximilien Robespierre

In my final year of law school, everything became real. Malaysian TV shows wanted me to perform big concerts. So, after graduating,…

— Yuna

To set a trap for a handful of promiscuous individuals, the Zina law has laid a minefield for women in difficult circumstances.

— Asma Jahangir

I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are…

— Ted Cruz

I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny…

— Frank Church

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of…

— Immanuel Kant

“Law and custom are becoming the subjects of a new field of learning. The anarch endeavors to judge them ethnographically, historically, and…

— Ernst Jünger

I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to…

— Delphine de Vigan

Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth…

— Frank Herbert

As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going…

— Ronald Reagan

All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some…

— Michelle Alexander

Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!

— Penn Jillette

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

— Thomas More

There's no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.

— Tucker Carlson

People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

— Major Owens

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

— Frederic Bastiat

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

— Anonymous

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Space and time emerge from the laws rather than providing an arena in which things happen.”

— Lee Smolin

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

— Jodi Picoult

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

— Otto von Bismarck

I have the privilege of serving others by defending the Constitution and the rule of law.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.

— Kenneth Chenault

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by…

— Demonax

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

— James Forman, Jr