Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitation on stupidity. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning. — Benjamin Cardozo 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 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
Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
By statute, Congress has given the president the authority to suspend immigration - any class of immigration if he deems it in… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish… — Paul Martin 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
The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible. — Mariano Rajoy Copy Share Image
The way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires… — Dawn Johnsen Copy Share Image
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the… — Yoweri Museveni 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 Supreme Court, or any court, when they make a decision, if that's a published decision, it becomes virtually like a statute.… — George Deukmejian Copy Share Image
The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
“The other members of the legal fraternity especially the court officers/lawyers should be encouraged to aid in interpretation of statutes by handing… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of… — James Comey Copy Share Image
The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the… — Ron George Copy Share Image
Congress passes statutes, and those statutes are very clear on the job EPA has to do. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty. — Jeff Cooper 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
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
It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes. — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
