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Best Law Quotes by Mark Twain
- It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would…
- ...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or…
- You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning,…
- The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature.…
- [N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law…
- Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried…
- That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of…
- By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each…
- Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
- The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other…
- The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try…
- Honor is a harder master than the law.
- What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.
- Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
- Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
- You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
- No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
- Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of…
- Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing…
- A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.
- Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.
- So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's…
- Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on…
- We need a law that will permit a voter to sue a candidate for breach of promise
More Law Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson