Laws Quotes

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Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either… — Joseph Story
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the… — Alexander Hamilton
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong. — William E. Gladstone
...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… — Woodrow Wilson
The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and… — Benjamin Franklin
I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people. It… — Fisher Ames
Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken… — James Madison
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary… — Thomas Jefferson
The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always… — Thomas Jefferson
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in… — Alexander Hamilton
Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws,… — Alexander Hamilton
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose… — Alexander Hamilton
I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know… — James Madison
It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first comports… — Alexander Hamilton
I think that everyone has an equal right to play and I think we've been supportive of that. With the Olympics and the controversy around… — Sidney Crosby
Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death. — John Ruskin
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. — Baron de Montesquieu
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful… — Eric Hoffer
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification ... — Jennifer O'Neill
I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever… — John Cornyn
The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem… — John A. Keel
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us,… — Florence Nightingale
The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you… — Janet Morris
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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