Lawfully Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are here…
— Barbara Jordan
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Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions of applicants who…
— Mike Lee
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I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.
— John Lyly
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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
— Michel de Montaigne
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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
— Abraham Lincoln
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But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which…
— John Calvin
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In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal matters.…
— John Holdren
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Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall…
— Pope Pius XI
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No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an…
— Stefan Zweig
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Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the…
— Samuel Johnson
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I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.
— William J. Clinton
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A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming…
— Ellen Key
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I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and…
— Monica Lewinsky
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Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.
— T.C. Boyle
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The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as…
— Raymond Kelly
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The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that…
— William L. Jenkins
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Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.
— John Linder
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IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It…
— Charles Inglis
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It is not birth only, nor propinquity of blood, that makes a king lawfully to reign above a people professing Christ Jesus and his eternal…
— John Knox
Who Wrote These Lawfully Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Lawfully Quotes as follows: