Law Quotes · Page 156

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

— Anonymous

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

— Paul Ricoeur

The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.

— Edward Coke

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

— Edward Coke

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

— Rasheed Wallace

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

— George Will

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

— Charice Pempengco

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

— Sonita Alizadeh

A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is,…

— Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special…

— William Greider

Those people… early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to…

— Mark Twain

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will,…

— Joanne Greenberg

Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems. But is it more laws that we need?…

— Jacque Fresco

This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the…

— Robert W. Service

The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the…

— Ernst Junger

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts…

— Charles Darwin

Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch…

— Og Mandino

Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation…

— Thomas Nixon Carver

Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance.…

— John Stossel

You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you…

— Judith Martin

I think 99.9% of our law enforcement officers are great Americans. Many of them are African American, Hispanic, Asian, they're working the…

— Robert C. O'Brien

Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law — not the rule of force — governs relations…

— Wesley Clark

But we're going to work on education, we're going to work on - going to stop - try to stop the crime,…

— Donald Trump

If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and…

— Robert D. Brinsmead

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

— Sam Seder

All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.

— Robert Collier

Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law.

— Hillary Clinton

We have to be very aggressive, to go to the limit of what's legal.

— Michael Ballack

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

— Andrew Mitchell

In 1994, the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was signed into law to prevent and combat domestic violence.

— Conner Eldridge

“the laws that ran through nature were uniform and pervasive.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

— Pat Conroy

It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.

— Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow,

— Joyce Meyer

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

— Ahmed Zaki Yamani

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

— Otto von Bismarck

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

— Noam Chomsky

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

— Norman Finkelstein

My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on…

— Kevin Rahm

I'm not as stupid as some people think. I've got a degree in law.

— Ricky Whittle