Law Quotes · Page 158

The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

— Cynthia McKinney

“Once you develop a fear of the police, it stays with you for life.”

— Steven Magee

When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

— William Shakespeare

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

— Walter Lippmann

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

— Benjamin Constant

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

— Tacitus

A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

— Aristotle

I came to believe that actually [Louis] Brandeis tended to uphold laws that he liked and strike down those that he didn't,…

— Jeffrey Rosen

The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws…

— Sylvia Earle

I studied law, so perhaps I might have made it to the Bar, though I gave up that idea when I suspected…

— Mark Strong

There are those who offer themselves as leaders who even play politics with a nomination of our nations chief law enforcement officer,…

— Hillary Clinton

I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering…

— Dick Cheney

They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or…

— Jordan Flaherty

We are losing the war against cancer. The prohibition of new carcinogenic products, reduction of toxins in use, and right-to-know laws -…

— Samuel Epstein

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always…

— Jane Siberry

“Giving up all pretense of obeying natural laws again, I see,” he said. “Natural laws?” Syl said, finding the concept amusing. “Laws…

— Brandon Sanderson

To finish first you have to first finish. Don't get in a position where you go back to go. What's interesting is…

— Charlie Munger

We welcome the National Rifle Association here to Indianapolis. It's tens of thousands of freedom loving Americans. I was grateful to be…

— Mike Pence

It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that…

— William J. Clinton

If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would…

— Simon Greenleaf

But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man…

— Benjamin Franklin

I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“You couldn't lay down the law and then sulk when no one challenged it.”

— Sydney Landon

You better wake up before it's too late, or they'll be doing your makeup down at the coroner's place.

— Kool Moe Dee

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

— Ayn Rand

It is often the case that laws must change before fears about change dissipate.

— Hillary Clinton

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

Since when is it against the law to meet with people from another country?

— Ed Schultz

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

— Thomas Jefferson

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

— Immanuel Kant

Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.

— Catherine Jinks

A grass court can become confusing unless you don't allow it to.

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all.

— Roseanne Barr

I think I always naturally lead on the court by just working.

— Malcolm Brogdon

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

— William Shakespeare

Rubio rode his skill as a high school quarterback to college in Florida, followed by law school.

— Robert C. O'Brien

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

— Abraham Lincoln

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

— Anonymous