Law Quote by Louis XIV Download Open image “Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.” — Louis XIV ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Law
They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share
They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without… — Jack Cade Copy Share Image
All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision. — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate. — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons. — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don… — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins. — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it. — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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