Law Quotes · Page 178

The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America.

— Jacki Weaver

Sanctuary city policies disrespect the rule of law in this country.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

Animals have no safety net in society, no voices of their own, and very few rights under the law.

— Jackie Fuchs

Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

— John Wesley

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“Norman’s Law: The day the product team is announced, it is behind schedule and over its budget.”

— Donald A. Norman

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

— John F. Kennedy

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

— A. P. Herbert

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

— Tim Kaine

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions,…

— Lysander Spooner

A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain…

— Swami Vivekananda

There was certainly an old law code which stands behind the earliest form of Deuteronomy. Presumably that is what was lost.

— Frank Moore Cross

“The way law stays alive is by remaining in touch with social contracts pieced together among real people on the ground.”

— Hernando de Soto

Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed…

— Neale Donald Walsch

The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other…

— Brian Tracy

Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and…

— Joseph Sobran

You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places…

— Nancy Pickard

How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been…

— Gerald Heaney

By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think…

— Edward Snowden

Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that…

— Rush Limbaugh

I had this question asked to me recently when I was buying food for my wife and brother in law and I…

— A. J. McLean

A problem with school is that you often become what you study. If you study, let say cooking, you become a chef.…

— Anonymous

[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws…

— Alexander Hamilton

There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by…

— Cass Sunstein

I assume I can give you a letter from a big law firm saying that we're under audit.

— Donald Trump

Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in…

— Chris Rock

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be…

— Henry David Thoreau

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

— Thomas Carlyle

“I am far more fearful of the police than I am of North Korea.”

— Steven Magee

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

— Walter Savage Landor

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

— Edward Coke

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

— Lord Acton

“The law of service. He who wishes to live long must serve, but he who wishes to rule does not live long.”

— Hermann Hesse

For a long time, I thought I was going to go into law, but theatre just kept being so present in my…

— Annie Murphy

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

— Anonymous

Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break

— Charles John Darling

If fate's so wrong you'll start to feel lightheaded By my admission, nothing grows Just a longer list of unsorted laws

— Chevelle

“Consequently, in the United States the law favors those classes which are most interested in evading it elsewhere.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.

— Columba Bush

My parents are not people who would want to rock the boat. They wouldn't break the law.

— Caroline Lucas