To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When Federal law conflicts with state laws and the will of the American people, it's time to change the laws, not circulate… — Matt Gaetz Copy Share Image
In Connecticut, we have passed some of the strongest anti-gun-violence laws in the nation. We don't restrict anybody's Second Amendment rights. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
As society changes, laws have to change to protect citizens along the way. Sometimes you have to try new and different and… — John Rowland Copy Share Image
Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Even if we were able to agree on an ideal set of immigration laws, enforcing such laws in the face of hundreds… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“The air was icy, Mari came back in, grabbed a coat and went out again. Outside, far from the eyes of everyone,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr.… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“If a law be bad it is one thing to oppose the practice of it, but it is quite a different thing… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Magic is like a lot of other disciplines that people have recently begun developing, in historic terms. Working with magic is a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality;… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
