Statute Quotes

54 quotes by 46 authors

• The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion of… — Tony Benn
• The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and… — Colm Toibin
• I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights… — F. W. de Klerk
• If I were attorney general in Kansas in 1953, I would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities. — Eric Holder
• The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary… — Benjamin Cardozo
• I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute. — Zoe Lofgren
• I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going… — John Bolton
• And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the… — Bible
• And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? / And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree,… — Bible
• We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along… — Richard Ben-Veniste
• Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9-11 that's thorough, complete and will… — Richard Ben-Veniste
• A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as… — Alexander Hamilton
• Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. — Edward Sandford Martin

Who Wrote These Statute Quotes

46 authors contributed a total of 54 Statute Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Statute Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 2 Statute Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
• 2 Statute Quotes by Harry A. Blackmun
• 2 Statute Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
• 2 Statute Quotes by Bible
• 2 Statute Quotes by Richard Ben-Veniste
• 1 Statute Quote by Clement Attlee
• 1 Statute Quote by Harlan F. Stone
• 1 Statute Quote by John Knox
• 1 Statute Quote by Christopher Peterson
• 1 Statute Quote by Thomas Starr King
• 1 Statute Quote by William J. Brennan
• 1 Statute Quote by Margaret Spellings
• 1 Statute Quote by William Borah
• 1 Statute Quote by T.H. White
• 1 Statute Quote by John Thune
• 1 Statute Quote by John Boehner
• 1 Statute Quote by Warren G. Harding
• 1 Statute Quote by Tony Blair
• 1 Statute Quote by Mariano Rajoy
• 1 Statute Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
• 1 Statute Quote by Felix Frankfurter
• 1 Statute Quote by Annie Besant
• 1 Statute Quote by Sandra Day O'Connor
• 1 Statute Quote by Clarence Thomas