Law Quotes · Page 131

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

— Theodore Roosevelt

In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.

— Eric Schmidt

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

— Vladimir Putin

I'm a law-and-order guy. I mean, I confess I'm a social conservative, but it does not affect my views on cases.

— Antonin Scalia

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

— Thomas Jefferson

...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable.

— Luther L. Bohanon

When I left school I was meant to do my law degree but I was lucky to fall into something I love.

— Georgia Toffolo

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

— Alexander Pope

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it;…

— William Blackstone

I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere…

— George W. Bush

A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former…

— John C. Calhoun

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law,…

— James Bovard

Pretty fortunate that with the exception of two months when I was 23, that I worked in a law office pushing paper…

— Jon Gordon

In the law, you have people whose lives have changed because some dirtbag decided to do something to them. We should call…

— Jeanine Pirro

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to…

— Paul Strand

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's…

— David Mamet

I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement, increased immigration…

— Jan C. Ting

This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I practiced law for 10 years, and I always admired the lawyers who were not afraid to take unpopular cases. And I…

— John Grisham

For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because…

— Wendell Berry

I have no doubt that if confirmed, Judge Gorsuch would help to restore confidence in the rule of law. His years on…

— Neal Katyal

The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly…

— Anonymous

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fundamentally, however, there is neither good nor evil; this is all based on human concepts. In the universe there exists neither good…

— Franz Bardon

I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.

— Brandon Lee

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

— Tim Robbins

You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. [Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad…

— Plautus

Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

— Frederic Bastiat

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.

— Errol White

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a…

— Scott Turow

“To be properly wicked, you do not have to break the Law. Just observe it to the letter.”

— Anthony de Mello

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

— Ben Hecht

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

— Michel Chossudovsky

It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield…

— George Washington

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

— Lawrence Lessig

Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.

— Joseph Sobran

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

— Edward Kasner