Law Quotes · Page 148

“A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.”

— Magdalen Braden

Our courts and law, our on-going experiment in self-governance, these parts of our social fabric are precious.

— Cal Cunningham

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

— Kim Young-sam

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws

— Moliere

“There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will.”

— Aleister Crowley

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

— John Stuart Mill

“When I learned the identity of one of the police officers that had been harassing me, I was truly shocked!”

— Steven Magee

“The Speed of Light: It’s Not Just a Good Idea It’s the Law.”

— Anonymous

Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.

— Marilyn vos Savant

The House of Representatives provides a special, nonpartisan staff of lawyers, called Legislative Counsel, who are experts in various areas of the…

— Jared Polis

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and…

— Livy

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is…

— Clarence Thomas

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be…

— Martin Luther

“In morals the law of competition no more justifies personal, official, or national selfishness or brutality than the law of gravitation justifies…

— Vernon Kellogg

This election [2016], and I believe this, is our last chance to secure the border, stop illegal immigration and reform our laws…

— Donald Trump

In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust…

— Elizabeth Warren

Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him,…

— Karl Marx

In the beginning all souls were as a unity to the God-Force. As self added or subtracted that which was in keeping…

— Edgar Cayce

Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a…

— Barry Goldwater

You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases…

— Anne Stevenson

Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions.…

— Ray Dalio

Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct? Is the only right standard for everyone, the probable…

— Charles Sheldon

In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds,…

— S. J. Perelman

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

— Alfred Harker

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

— Henrik Ibsen

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

— James Anthony Froude

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

— Robert A. Heinlein

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

— Cofer Black

I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate.

— Spencer Grammer

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

— Miguel de Cervantes

When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I…

— Johnny Cash

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot…

— Anonymous

Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.

— Napoleon Hill

There is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government.

— Jeanine Pirro

“They had a lot of rules that got in the way," Kade said dismissively. "Those are called laws, Kade”

— Tiffany Snow

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

— Howard Zinn

In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I want to tell the law and order machinery not to spare anyone who indulges in unlawful activities.

— Arvind Kejriwal

“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.”

— William Shakespeare