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Law Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
- From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations…
- ...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The…
- Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of…
- The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.
- The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.
- What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
- Too much law was too much government; and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in its turn was…
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- 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