Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the,… — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession,… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
One of the most solemn responsibilities of the president--and it's set out expressly in the Constitution--is that the president is to take… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
There was this point about, you know, the basic point there as well - this statute treats some parts of the country… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the… — Adam Kokesh Copy Share Image
The state has a right to do that [outlaw contraceptives], I have never questioned that the state has a right to do… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is it's outside the statute of limitations for a civil suit by Leeds. It's actually is not outside of… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitation on stupidity. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible. — Mariano Rajoy Copy Share Image
We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature. — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court… — Christopher Peterson Copy Share Image
The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is oscene. That's the first thing we… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
We've got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
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