In general, laws are tailored to suit the needs of the ones making them. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In order to know what [the law] is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to… — Nathan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty… — Charles Macklin Copy Share Image
Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers,… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but… — Henry Brooks Adams Copy Share Image
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and… — George Savile Copy Share Image
“Their greatest danger was in the disbelief of their teachers. Though every one had a copy of the law, few read it;… — Johann David Wyss Copy Share Image
Countries around the world have their own immigration laws and methods of dealing with a recurring theme: desperate people searching for peace… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“By exiling human judgment in the last few decades, modern law changed role from useful tool to brainless tyrant. This legal regime… — Philip K. Howard 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
“At all events, in a society, all of whose members are free, and equal in the true sense of the words, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather...the law is like a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Employer-employee relationship is much nuanced than expected by regulatory mechanisms and legal instruments in any constitutional set up. Neither employer nor employee… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
“ The Laws Of God, The Laws Of Man The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image