Law Quotes · Page 160

“It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it.”

— Edward Cline

Under both international and domestic law, the United States is authorized to have nuclear weapons.

— Ted Lieu

My intention has never to commit something wrong and I have always believed in abiding the law.

— Payal Rohatgi

I took the LSAT the day 'Jersey Shore' premiered, and after that I was too busy to go to law school.

— Vinny Guadagnino

“Sometimes the law is about as useful as tits on a bull. Good people end up hurt.”

— Joanna Schaffhausen

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

— Esther Hicks

When I'm on the court in New York, I'm laying everything out. It means so much.

— Stephon Marbury

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas…

— David Hume

One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves…

— Francis Galton

The truth is that the D.C. Circuit is an admirably nonideological court that applies principles of administrative law evenhandedly.

— Eugene Scalia

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't…

— Otto von Bismarck

We should evaluate judges and judicial nominees based on the general process for applying the law to any legal disputes, not on…

— Orrin Hatch

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and…

— Rudolf Hiferding

Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried…

— Joshua Slocum

Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age…

— J.A. Redmerski

Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering,…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness -…

— Naum Gabo

We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight…

— Michael Bloomberg

Celestial marriage is for the fullness of the glory of god. It is the crowning glory. A man has no right to…

— Francis M. Lyman

I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous…

— Mike Ness

With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a…

— Robert H. Jackson

It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are…

— Aeschines

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

— Linda Ellerbee

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

— Douglas Hofstadter

I'm in jail because people wanna keep me in jail. It ain't got nothing to do with the law.

— Charles Manson

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

— Bertrand Russell

One thing is certain: Brexit is enshrined in law and I will not be cowed by the predictions of doom and disaster.

— Suella Braverman

He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

— William Blake

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

— Ayn Rand

Only Congress can amend the law, not President Obama nor the courts.

— Tom Fitton

Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works.

— Kirstjen Nielsen

“The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.”

— John Frohnmayer

[Helmut] Kohl said Europe must return to being a community committed to stability and the rule of law.

— Martin Schulz

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

— John Milton

The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States.

— Louie Gohmert

Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

— Plato

Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.

— Charles Kingsley

“The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.”

— Mark Twain