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Laws Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their…
- It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with…
- The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to…
- How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
- All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from…
- How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,…
- For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed…
- Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
- A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where…
- To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil…
- The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval…
- For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed…
More Laws 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
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- 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
- 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
- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. — Michael Badnarik