The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Arab awakening has been, up to now, a lot about freedom from dictatorial regimes - Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Bahrain and… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
If I deny the existence of a God - if I deny the idea of a gold paved city with pearly walls… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
“What is this so-called 'employment flexibility'? It simply means that employers, in their quest to reduce costs whilst trying to meet the… — E.S. Fourie Copy Share Image
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“The essence and value of the law lies in its stability and durability (...), in its “relative eternity.” Only then does the… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“In general, the natural dividing line between legislative and nonlegislative power was between rules that bound subjects and those that did not.… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the… — Rebecca De Mornay Copy Share Image
Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client… — Robert Pozen Copy Share Image
As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional sources of law and legal… — Diane S. Sykes Copy Share Image
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Law was given by Moses; the moral law, to discover the extent and abounding sin; the ceremonial law, to point out,… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Communities do need police, but law enforcement needs to be much more transparent and held accountable for their actions. We also need… — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Today, the best way to communicate with someone is still face-to-face. Virtual reality has the potential to change that, to make it… — Palmer Luckey Copy Share Image
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
What's beautiful about the journey of surrogacy is that relationship you build with your surrogate, when it's done in places with good… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
In some states, the attorney general is appointed, but in New York state it's an independently elected position. The New York attorney… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image