Laws Quotes · Page 22

The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.

— Benvenuto Cellini

We need a proper balance between rights and responsibilities in our laws.

— Chris Grayling

The common law is nothing else but statutes worn out by time

— Russell Baker

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular

— Benjamin Disraeli

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.

— Rick Scott

Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.

— John Boehner

The laws of a state change with the changing times.

— Aeschylus

State and federal laws protect whistle-blowers, those who refuse to do something illegal, and workers who file claims for workers' compensation.

— Bill Dedman

“Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with…

— Ashly Lorenzana

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

— Herbert Hoover

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

— Mark Twain

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

— Otto von Bismarck

Just because you call something a blockchain or an ICO, that doesn't mean you aren't subject to normal laws.

— Juan Benet

“The law has the power to show us that we are not righteous; but it cannot give us the power to be…

— Timothy J. Keller

“Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.”

— Aristotle

It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle…

— Leonard Susskind

It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the…

— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

“One of the biggest problems this country has is that people think a law is a law only if they agree with…

— Jennifer Crusie

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance…

— Edmund Burke

“In general we should be aware of, and protective towards, those precious legal instruments that we already possess, and which often depend…

— Roger Scruton

It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is…

— Edward Jenks

The law's the law, but people are people.

— Anonymous

The law does not require you to be a mind-reader.

— Richard Harris

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

— Winston Churchill

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

— Oscar Wilde

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

— Edmund Burke

Either the law exists, or it does not.

— Andre Norton

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

— John Milton

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

— Earl Warren

“laws for the sake of controlling people rather than protecting them.”

— Chris Dietzel

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

— Thomas Hobbes

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

— Joel Miller

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

— Bill James

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Necessity makes laws, but does not obey them

— Woodrow T Wilson

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

— Edmund Burke

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

— Arthur Baer