Law Quotes · Page 83

Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.

— Fredrik Bajer

A federal appellate circuit looked at what [Barak] Obama was doing and said he can't do it. Immigration law is settled.

— Rush Limbaugh

The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.

— Ferruccio Busoni

I think the 'Law of Attraction' comes from a rich, white, privileged perspective.

— Ryan Gosling

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

— Tacitus

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

— Louis L'Amour

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

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries…

— Anonymous

Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process…

— Margaret Sanger

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun…

— Luke Scott

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

— Edward Abbey

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a supreme law of the land that is binding on all persons and parts of…

— Anonymous

The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no…

— Mark Shields

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at…

— Andre Gide

“On behalf of the deference under the Administrative Procedure Act, it is said that Congress is not constitutionally barred from authorizing deference—as…

— Philip Hamburger

Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of…

— Woodrow Wilson

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with…

— Leonardo da Vinci

People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I…

— Rosa Parks

I’ve chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme…

— Al Gore

The Universal Law is impartial. It will give you anything you believe. It will throw you garbage or roses depending on the…

— Stuart Wilde

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on…

— Malcolm X

Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus…

— Dennis C. Blair

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

— Walter Savage Landor

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

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

— Donald Trump

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

— A. P. Herbert

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

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

— Donald A. Norman

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

— John Wesley

Congress voted for tougher laws on corporations. So now when a corporation buys a senator, they need a receipt.

— Jay Leno

“There has always been a certain conflict between justice and the law. HERBERT PELL”

— Christopher Simpson

The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.

— John Jay

Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement.

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— Caroline Lucas

Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law

— Charles Olson

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville