Statute Quotes

54 quotes by 46 authors

This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy -… — Annie Besant
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University… — Thomas Jefferson
Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not. — Trey Gowdy
In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is… — Milton Friedman
The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver… — Potter Stewart
The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage… — Anthony Kennedy
Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute — Ron George
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by… — Harry A. Blackmun
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
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from… — Lenny Bruce
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may… — John F. Kennedy
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to… — Robert Bork
A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it. — Hilary Mantel
When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world… — Clement Attlee
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or… — Harlan F. Stone
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which… — John Knox
Whatâ€™s happened is that, almost overnight, weâ€™ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this,… — Christopher Peterson
Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet,… — Thomas Starr King

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