Law Quotes · Page 94

A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.

— Thomas Jefferson

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

— Serge Lang

MARRIAGE, A legal custom which turns a man into the captive audience of his wife;

— Nikhil Saluja

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarelyon the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

— June L Trapp

There's something quite fascinating with crooks and criminals and all things against the law.

— Jason Statham

“The law," he continued, "is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead...”

— Walter Mosley

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

— Scott Turow

“Never let a police officer into your home, as they are known to steal.”

— Steven Magee

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

— Anonymous

This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious…

— Francis Schaeffer

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the…

— Edward Everett

Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I've faced various toxic…

— Lori Lightfoot

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National,…

— Daniel Webster

I have always loved the law. It is the very foundation of our great country. It's the exceptional foundation of America.

— Jeff Sessions

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was…

— Gerard Butler

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be…

— Charles Sumner

We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the…

— George H. W. Bush

To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of…

— Calvin Coolidge

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact…

— Barack Obama

Matthew is the only gospel that uses the Sermon on the Mount, for example, because that's the new Moses making a new…

— John Shelby Spong

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The books of jurisprudence were interesting to few, and entertaining to none: their value was connected with present use, and they sunk…

— Edward Gibbon

All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All…

— Laozi

Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from…

— Walter Russell

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

— Anonymous

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

— Alan Bullock

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

— Abraham Lincoln

My law clerks come from diverse backgrounds and points of view.

— Brett Kavanaugh

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

— Stephen Breyer

Law 36: Disdain things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best revenge.

— The 48 Laws Of Power

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law

— Wilfred Owen

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of…

— Hillary Clinton

I am proud that a majority of my law clerks have been women.

— Brett Kavanaugh

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

— Robert Burns

Sharia law is totally intolerant of homosexuality. It's not permissible.

— Rush Limbaugh

I operate according to a definite, unerring law...I know the outcome before I start.

— Roger McDonald

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

— Karl Kraus

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

— Ken Livingstone

The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

— Allen W. Wood

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson