The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist. — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either. — Malorie Blackman Copy Share Image
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
We Brits are law abiding folk. We pride ourselves on our natural tendency to form an orderly queue rather than a scrum. — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
We are moving into a new world and the old negativity will be left behind. Through the law of cause and effect,… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know… — Katherine Harris Copy Share Image
No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws. — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
“Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
International law in its counter-hegemonic uses is very important in any domain where issues of legitimacy are significant, but is rarely able… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The most important part of the daily ministration was the service performed in behalf of individuals. ... By his own hand the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“These businessmen, however, desired more than the simple elimination of imprisonment for defaulting debtors. They wanted a bankruptcy law that would abolish… — Robert J. Rayback Copy Share Image
I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
But spirituality, it seems to me, when answering the question, "Why should I be good? Why should I care for others?" says,… — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine… — Gary North Copy Share Image
In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with… — Bernhard von Cotta Copy Share Image
“Not everything that falls within the law is right. Don’t be trapped into thinking it is.” — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
I’ve consequently played a lot of different cops from a lot of different kind of law enforcement agencies. — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. — Paul Dickson Copy Share Image
The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen. — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Demeter became a “law” because a human being decided so; don’t be fooled by its grandiose name.” — Sandi Metz Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment. — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
Our brave law enforcement professionals are a credit to the people of North Carolina. — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study. — Hillel the Elder Copy Share Image