Law Quotes · Page 166

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

— William Wycherley

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

— Anonymous

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.

— Thomas Sowell

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

— Edward Coke

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Woman Law: My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

— Nikhil Saluja

“Quem não tenciona satisfazer não regateia condições no contratar.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

— John F. Kennedy

When any government separates from God and His law in Scripture and from His people and His church, it invites judgment on…

— John MacArthur

There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given…

— James Otis

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone…

— Margaret Anderson

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like…

— Dennis Hastert

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together…

— Linda Hogan

It's unnecessary for elected officials to release their taxes because they are already required by law to submit a personal financial disclosure.

— Chris Collins

Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be…

— Walter Cronkite

Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health…

— Ron Wyden

If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any…

— Lee Kuan Yew

Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where…

— Cesar Chavez

We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white…

— Dean Spade

We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion,…

— John Ashcroft

What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law…

— Sebastian Junger

“If you let loose a law, it will do as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Such…

— G.K. Chesterton

Educate yourself, take the time to find out what is in a bill and how it will effect everything, and not just…

— David Pratt

By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“In short, we do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws.”

— G.K. Chesterton

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

— Mark Zandi

In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.

— Angela Rayner

“When the father is no longer an overbearing patriarch the son looks everywhere for the law - and finds no lawgiver.”

— René Girard

Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.

— Carl Jung

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

— Oscar Wilde

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

— Stephen Hawking

This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

— Jeff Sessions

Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.

— Seneca the Younger

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

— Anonymous

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

— James Madison

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

— George Bernard Shaw

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

— Calvin Trillin

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

— Jonathan Swift

Whatever belief I am practicing the Law of Attraction will validate with evidence.

— Esther Hicks

Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.

— Nguyen Du