Law Quotes · Page 157

... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

— Thomas Paine

Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends.

— Giovanni Giolitti

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

— Elbert Hubbard

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it

— Anonymous

The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.

— Kevin Bales

The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

— Rod Parsley

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

— Anne Lamott

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and…

— Ada Cambridge

The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also…

— Burke Marshall

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are…

— Blaise Pascal

“The social contract known as 'The Constitution' has been null and void since the last person who signed it, died. Even then,…

— Dane Whalen

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense.…

— Geoffrey West

“Satan, the god of all dissension stirs up daily new sects. And last of all which of all others I should have…

— Martin Luther

If a state indicts good into their system and law then only good should come from it. Therefore if things are good…

— Anonymous

For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is…

— David Novak

World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more…

— William O. Douglas

Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally…

— Marilynne Robinson

I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher. There wasn't a great understanding of gender discrimination. People knew that race…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords…

— Henry David Thoreau

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have spent years toiling away in the relative solitude of my chambers, with just my law clerks, in isolation.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

— David L. Bazelon

Usually state laws refer to touching intimate parts, it can be breasts or buttocks.

— Megyn Kelly

Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

— Hans Kung

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.

— William Barclay

“Serikali haifungi mtu kutokana na shinikizo la watu. Inafunga mtu kutokana na sheria za nchi.”

— Enock Maregesi

“In the Obama administration, “rule of law” talking points are just rhetorical camouflage.”

— Andrew McCarthy

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

— Robert Southey

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic…

— L.A. Paul

"Law suites of up to $150,000 per song against people who download music...

— Danny Worsnop

I'm very easy-going off court, but I really want to win once I'm walking on to the court.

— Ana Ivanovic

“Moore’s law is a law not of nature, but of human ingenuity.”

— Seth Lloyd

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

— Alan Keyes

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton