“As well you know, the laws of the land do not permit torture,” — Annelisa Christensen Copy Share Image
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges. — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
“A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. — Solon Copy Share Image
People are unwilling to enforce the laws on the books. Instead, they make more laws. Why can't we get this right? — Kathy Szeliga Copy Share Image
The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords,… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Legalism is concerned simply with external conformity and is blind to internal motivation.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“It is unforgivable that men and women who have worked the land and served us for generations should be so bewildered and… — Rebecca Ann Collins Copy Share Image
Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way… — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
I had spent the prior eight years working at my firm primarily representing big chemical companies, helping them comply with all the… — Robert Bilott Copy Share Image
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance… — John Cleveland Copy Share Image
“The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
“Another effect of this deplorable perversion of the law is, that it gives to human passions and to political struggles, and, in… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
“We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Clearly if the United States' relationship with Cuba changed, which would require a regime change inside Cuba, if Cuba moved towards a… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (...) ‘We see the world as it really is,… — Oliver Bowden Copy Share Image
If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely, a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper,… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demographics of the workforce, the role of women in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image