Law Quotes · Page 170

Undermining the rule of law is an assault on the government of the United States.

— Heather Cox Richardson

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

— George Gillespie

“...when scores of indicted criminals sit in parliament who could believe in the rule of law...”

— Donna Leon

If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.

— Eric Schmidt

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

— Joy Fielding

Federal law must be followed where federal dollars are in play.

— Betsy DeVos

Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

— Bo Derek

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

— Myrtle Reed

What we need to do, is restore those tools that have been taken away by the president [Barack Obama] and others, restore…

— Chris Christie

I am quite convinced that we need to increase the resources that go to municipalities if we want the municipalities to do…

— Thabo Mbeki

“To see triumph the nullities, see prosper the dishonor, see grow the injustice, to see agglomerate powers in the hands of the…

— Rui Barbosa

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system,…

— Ariel Sharon

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of…

— Adolf Hitler

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by…

— Confucius

I headed off to Yale, and eventually Georgetown Law, but I never forgot where I came from. I came back to South…

— Jaime Harrison

The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease…

— John Marshall

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“We can even see the legal institution of marriage as a precommitment strategy, not unlike that of Ulysses in approaching the Sirens,…

— Anonymous

I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free,…

— Sebastian Pinera

Practicing the Law of Giving is actually very simple; if you want joy, give joy to others; if you want love, learn…

— Deepak Chopra

Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is…

— Marquis de Sade

Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always;…

— Abraham Lincoln

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in…

— Lucy Parsons

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction…

— Christopher Hitchens

In general, laws are tailored to suit the needs of the ones making them.

— Mariana Fulger

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I will do everything I can... to make sure that Poland sticks to a development that fosters the rule of law, democracy.

— Frans Timmermans

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

— James Callaghan

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

— Randall Terry

I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling.

— Groucho Marx

The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.

— St. Jerome

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

— Ambrose Bierce

“The Bible is God's law-word which must govern every sphere of life and thought.”

— R.J. Rushdoony

The laws are very simple: thought is creative; fear attracts like energy; love is all there is.

— Neale Donald Walsch

“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.”

— Thomas Paine

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

— Garet Garrett

Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.

— Walter Savage Landor

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

— H. L. Mencken

Islam understands its earthly mission to extend the law of Allah over the world by force.

— Robert Spencer

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

— Confucius