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| Life, faculties, production- in other words, individuality, liberty, property- this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. Frédéric Bastiat Quotes |
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| The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation. Helen P. Blavatsky Quotes |
| This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position. Helen P. Blavatsky Quotes |
| Not under man but under God and law. Henry de Bracton Quotes |
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| ["non sub homine sed sub deo et lege", The quotation frames the entry to the Harvard Law Library.] Henry de Bracton Quotes |
| "It is an honorable calling that you have chosen. Some of you will soon be defending poor, helpless insurance companies who are constantly being sued by greedy, vicious widows and orphans trying to collect on their policies. Others will work tirelessly to protect frightened, beleaguered oil companies from being attacked by depraved consumer groups." Art Buchwald Quotes |
| Legislation, both statutory and constitutional, is enacted, it is true, from an experience of evils but its general language should not, therefore, be necessarily confined to the form that evil had theretofore taken. Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes. Therefore a principle, to be vital, must be capable of wider application than the mischief which gave it birth. This is peculiarly true of constitutions. They are not ephemeral enactments, designed to meet passing occasions. They are, to use the words of Chief Justice Marshall, 'designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.' The future is their care, and provision for events of good and bad tendencies of which no prophecy can be made. In the application of a constitution, therefore, our contemplation cannot be only of what has been, but of what may be. Under any other rule a constitution would indeed be as easy of application as it would be deficient in efficacy and power. Its general principles would have little value, and be converted by precedent into impotent and lifeless formulas. Rights declared in words might be lost in reality. And this has been recognized. The meaning and vitality of the Constitution have developed against narrow and restrictive construction. Joseph McKenna Quotes |
| "Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.” Michel de Montaigne Quotes |
| "Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.” Michel de Montaigne Quotes |
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| No one has felt the full glory of a barrister's life who has not, in wig and gown, been called to the podium in The Committee room of the House of Lords by an official in full evening dress and, on a wet Monday morning, lectured five elderly Law Lords on the virtues of masturbation. Sir John Mortimer Quotes |
| Compared to them I’m an amateur, and the thing about my jokes is that they don’t hurt anybody. You can say they’re not funny or they’re terrible or they’re good or whatever it is, but they don’t do no harm. But with Congress—every time they make a joke it’s a law. And every time they make a law it’s a joke. Will Rogers Quotes |
| The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. Will Rogers Quotes |
| We are always saying: "Let the Law take its Course" but what we really mean is: "Let the Law take OUR Course." Will Rogers Quotes |
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| "The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a republic at all. When the sturdy Roman plebeian, who lived by his own labor, who voted without reward according to his own convictions, and who with his fellows formed in war the terrible Roman legion, had been changed into an idle creature who craved nothing in life save the gratification of a thirst for vapid excitement, who was fed by the state, and who directly or indirectly sold his vote to the highest bidder, then the end of the republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing." Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| "A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad." Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer Quotes |
| There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law. It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound. Live free, child of the mist--and with respect to knowledge we are all children of the mist. The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker. "That is active duty," says the Vishnu Purana, "which is not for our bondage; that is knowledge which is for our liberation: all other duty is good only unto weariness; all other knowledge is only the cleverness of an artist." Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation. Leo Tolstoy Quotes |
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| If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws. Edward Abbey Quotes |
| Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. John Quincy Adams Quotes |
| 'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness. Æschylus Quotes |
| For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. Eric Ambler Quotes |
| Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. Aristotle Quotes |
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| Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. Dave Barry Quotes |
| For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. James 2:10 Bible Quotes |
| Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Quotes |
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| Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable. H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky Quotes |
| If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind. Henry C. Blinn Quotes |
| If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead. Erma Louise Bombeck Quotes |
| The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Nadia Boulanger Quotes |
| We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. Edmund Burke Quotes |
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| Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change. Robert Burns Quotes |
| The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented. John Calvin Quotes |
| Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. Truman Capote Quotes |
| An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis [that] calls for firmness and restraint. James Earl Quotes |
| I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did. James Earl Quotes |
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| Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it. I Ching Quotes |
| There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past. Noam Chomsky Quotes |
| Who will protect the public when the police violate the law? (William) Ramsey Clark Quotes |
| Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? Dick Clark Quotes |
| Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns. John Maurice Clark Quotes |
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| Billy Almon has all of his inlaw and outlaws here this afternoon. Jerry Coleman Quotes |
| He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
| Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Confucius Quotes |
| A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. Archibald Cox Quotes |
| I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit. Mario M(atthew) Cuomo Quotes |
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| In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. Idi Amin Dada Quotes |
| The law is a horrible business. Clarence Darrow Quotes |
| If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Charles Darwin Quotes |
| Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out. James Dent Quotes |
| Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off. Laertius Diogenes Quotes |
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| Common sense often makes good law. William Orville Douglas Quotes |
| Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed. Lowell Duckett Quotes |
| People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. Mark Duffy Quotes |
| The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate. William James Quotes |
| To live outside the law you must be honest. Bob Dylan Quotes |
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| Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty." (On signing law for inclusion of the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, 14 Jun 54) Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
| I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School) Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
| I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else-I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. Elizabeth II Quotes |
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| Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. Gerald R. Ford Quotes |
| The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France Quotes |
| The age of Grace began in mid-Acts, after the conversion of the Apostle Paul. It is through his letters alone that we learn about the dispensation of Grace, about Israel being set aside, with Jew and Gentile being saved into the Body of Christ. It was Paul who taught 'all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses' (Acts 21:21). It was also Paul who proclaimed the forgiveness of sins 'to all who would believe' in Christ, adding that 'ye could not be justified by the law of Moses' (Acts 13:38-39). The measuring rod of grace tells us that the age of Grace began with Paul, then continued through those who were saved and subsequently carried on His God-given doctrines of grace. John Fredericksen Quotes |
| A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Lee Frost Quotes |
| The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. Edward Gibbon Quotes |
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| Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| To live as one likes is plebian; the noble man aspires to order and law. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all. Lavina Goodell Quotes |
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| There is a difference between Moses and Paul. Moses was the great Law-giver to the nation of Israel, while Paul is the great dispenser of Grace to the Church, the Body of Christ. Henry Grube Quotes |
| I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it... Learned Hand Quotes |
| If you're a boxing referee, it's probably illegal to wear a bow tie that spins or changes colors. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| If you want to be the popular one at a party, here's a good thing to do: Go up to some people who are talking and laughing and say, 'Well, technically that's illegal.' It might fit in with what somebody just said. And even if it doesn't, so what, I hate this stupid party. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success? Indeed it does not! ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind. John W. Hanley Quotes |
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| From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul; it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment; and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man; yea, thou art from everlasting. Hermes Quotes |
| ...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet. Herman Hesse Quotes |
| Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. J(ohn) Edgar Hoover Quotes |
| Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers. Frank McKinney Hubbard Quotes |
| Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes |
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| The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes |
| The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
| A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
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| Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. Howard Mumford Jones Quotes |
| The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose. James Earl Jones Quotes |
| It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win. Paul Jones Quotes |
| Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money. Deane Jordan Quotes |
| The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received. Richard Jordan Quotes |
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| May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. Immanuel Kant Quotes |
| Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. Thomas à Kempis Quotes |
| Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. Jean Kerr Quotes |
| The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. Henry Alfred Kissinger Quotes |
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| The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. Edward Irving Koch Quotes |
| This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying. William Kunstler Quotes |
| Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe. Christine Lane Quotes |
| Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence Quotes |
| In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. Doris Lessing Quotes |
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| A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful. Primo Levi Quotes |
| Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. Georg Christopher Lichtenberg Quotes |
| Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals. Henry Louis Mencken Quotes |
| Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger Quotes |
| Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. John Morley Quotes |
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| Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey. Nicholson Quotes |
| Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for us today. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes |
| When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes |
| The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes |
| Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes |
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| Laws were made to be broken. Christopher North Quotes |
| Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Benjamin Disraeli Quotes |
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| Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| Good men must not obey the laws too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| State problems should involve state solutions. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made. Otto von Bismarck Quotes |
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| It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
| It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
| If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it. Edward A. Murphy Quotes |
| Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| [All the police] are going to get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license. John Wayne Quotes |
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| The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law. Buddha Quotes |
| Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve. Clarence Darrow Quotes |
| If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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| Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law Sophocles Quotes |
| Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant Quotes |
| Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. Mark Twain Quotes |
| You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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| There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob Ayn Rand Quotes |
| In this house, we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics! Dan Castellaneta Quotes |
| No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. Seneca Quotes |
| A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost Quotes |
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| Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato Quotes |
| Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity. Karl Albrecht Quotes |
| Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. Mark Twain Quotes |
| The law is reason free from passion Aristotle Quotes |
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| The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example. Dave Barry Quotes |
| The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds. Will Rogers Quotes |
| Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato Quotes |
| Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes |
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| The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced. Lao-Tse Quotes |
| Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life. Anais Nin Quotes |
| The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Ayn Rand Quotes |
| To live outside the law, you must be honest. Bob Dylan Quotes |
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| The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. George W. Bush Quotes |
| Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes |
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| Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom Ayn Rand Quotes |
| The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
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| An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes |
| It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes |
| Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man Confucius Quotes |
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| It seems to be a law of nature that Republicans are more boring than Democrats Stewart Alsop Quotes |
| Hard cases, it is said, make bad law John Campbell Argyll Quotes |
| There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes |
| Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all. Aristotle Quotes |
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| Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. Ayn Rand Quotes |
| The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
| And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department Andrew Carnegie Quotes |
| LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times. Warren E. Burger Quotes |
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| The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts. William Osler Quotes |
| He was a loser, you know. Every high school has to have at least two: it's like a national law. One male, one female. Everyone's dumping ground. ~Christine Stephen King Quotes |
| In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. Immanuel Kant Quotes |
| Moral principle is The Foundation of law. Ronald D. Dworkin Quotes |
| Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. Jim Elliot Quotes |
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| Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law. John Morley Quotes |
| In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
| There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish. Alfred Adler Quotes |
| When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty Charles Evans Hughes Quotes |
| If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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| Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens. Emmanuel Teney Quotes |
| The more corrupt the state, the more laws. Publius Cornelius Tacitus Quotes |
| Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
| I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes |
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| At his best man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst Aristotle Quotes |
| Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. Charles de Montesquieu Quotes |
| The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. William Blackstone Quotes |
| Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living. Terry Pratchett Quotes |
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| The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion Henry George Quotes |
| People must help one another; it is nature's law. Jean de La Fontaine Quotes |
| Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes |
| The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. John Locke Quotes |
| The welfare of the people is the ultimate law Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
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| A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running. Lucille Kallen Quotes |
| The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost / for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. Andrew Carnegie Quotes |
| We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. Charles Darwin Quotes |
| The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. Fred Allen Quotes |
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| An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men Ignazio Silon Quotes |
| Paper napkins never return from a laundry - nor love from a trip to the law courts John Barrymore Quotes |
| The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him John Marshall Quotes |
| Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. Louis D. Brandeis Quotes |
| Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king. Alexander Pope Quotes |
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| If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war. Belva Lockwood Quotes |
| Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. Brooks Hays Quotes |
| I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself. Thomas More Quotes |
| When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. Frank Herbert Quotes |
| Freedom is the only law which genius knows. James Russell Lowell Quotes |
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| Law of Probability Dispersal : Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed Roger Angell Quotes |
| It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime. Rudolph W. Giuliani Quotes |
| The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect. Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable L. Estrange Quotes |
| The more laws are enacted and taxes assessed, the greater the number of lawbreakers and tax evaders Lao Tzu Quotes |
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| I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant. instead of my master. Brigham Young Quotes |
| There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude. Geoffrey Fisher Quotes |
| We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become. Grace Speare Quotes |
| Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different Hart Pomerantz Quotes |
| Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
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| Hutchison's Law:Any occurrence requiring undivided attention will be accompanied by a compelling distraction. Robert Bloch Quotes |
| I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight. Roy M. Cohn Quotes |
| If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. Julius Caesar Quotes |
| In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. Northrop Frye Quotes |
| So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not Milton Friedman Quotes |
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| Law never is, but is always about to be Benjamin Cardozo Quotes |
| There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. Derek Bok Quotes |
| In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Earl Warren Quotes |
| Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling Felix Frankfurter Quotes |
| The key thing that makes national law firms work is synergy; with the right combination, one and one can make three. Steven Kumble Quotes |
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| Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love. James Allen Quotes |
| For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
| The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. Max Stirner Quotes |
| Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. St. Jerome Quotes |
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| The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law. H. G. Wells Quotes |
| It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality. Harold S. Geneen Quotes |
| What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man Herbert Spencer Quotes |
| There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. Norman Mailer Quotes |
| There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility. Maria Callas Quotes |
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| Law never made men a whit more just. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. Belva Lockwood Quotes |
| The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. Byron R. White Quotes |
| I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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| A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. Gerry Spence Quotes |
| My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each. Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes |
| The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. Raymond Chandler Quotes |
| We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. Jean Giraudoux Quotes |
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| It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. John Paul Jones Quotes |
| It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. Anton Chekhov Quotes |
| The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries Thomas Paine Quotes |
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| Taste cannot be controlled by law Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| The police must obey the law while enforcing the law. Earl Warren Quotes |
| No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, Fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. Euripides Quotes |
| The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law Jeremy Bentham Quotes |
| I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did. Jimmy Carter Quotes |
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| The more laws, the less justice. Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
| It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquity Buddha Sutta-Pitaka Quotes |
| The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit. Eric Porterfield Quotes |
| In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. Henry Brooks Adams Quotes |
| No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. J. Edgar Hoover Quotes |
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| The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. Peter Kropotkin Quotes |
| Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Malcolm X Quotes |
| We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
| A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. [The Zeroth Law of Robotics] Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law Aleister Crowley Quotes |
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| This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time. Frances E. Willard Quotes |
| So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes |
| The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. James Earl Jones Quotes |
| I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. John Mortimer Quotes |
| Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. Maria Mitchell Quotes |
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| Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it Learned Hand Quotes |
| It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us we should have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilized men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence. Mohandas Gandhi Quotes |
| The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes |
| We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes |
| If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. George Savile Quotes |
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| In all of this, it is the spirit that matters. Our Scout law and Promise, when we really put them into practice, take away all occasion for wars and strife among nations. Sir Robert Baden-Powell Quotes |
| My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself. Henny Youngman Quotes |
| It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. Hermann Hesse Quotes |
| What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows / it must grow; nothing can prevent it. Mark Twain Quotes |
| The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread Anatole France Quotes |
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| Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. Felix Frankfurter Quotes |
| A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers Samuel Butler Quotes |
| Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. Honore de Balzac Quotes |
| My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law. Jerry Seinfeld Quotes |
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| The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence John Adams Quotes |
| Law is born from despair of human nature. Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes |
| The robes of lawyers are lined with the obstinacy of clients Proverb Quotes |
| Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. Otto von Bismarck Quotes |
| Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws. Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
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| It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law Thomas Hobbes Quotes |
| The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans. Greta Garbo Quotes |
| So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant Quotes |
| Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. Robert Owen Quotes |
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| Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| Laws can discover sin, but not remove it John Milton Quotes |
| It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
| When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler. Al Gore Quotes |
| Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason. Archibald Cox Quotes |
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| The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force. W. Clement Stone Quotes |
| That which is not just is not law. William Lloyd Garrison Quotes |
| It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive Earl Warren Quotes |
| Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. Frederic Bastiat Quotes |
| There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
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| When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. Pope John Paul II Quotes |
| The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws... Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
| Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural? Bill Hicks Quotes |
| The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. Christian Nevell Bovee Quotes |
| There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great Walter Lippmann Quotes |
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| Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up. Donald Rumsfeld Quotes |
| Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein Quotes |
| If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. Joichi Ito Quotes |
| He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client Proverb Quotes |
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| Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge. Napoleon Hill Quotes |
| There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press Mark Twain Quotes |
| Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop. Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
| I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will, at a favorable moment, call (up the law for religious freedom) and make it the keystone of the arch of our government Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape Solon Quotes |
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| A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself Henry Peter Brougham Quotes |
| Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport Henry Youngman Quotes |
| The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law Maria Edgeworth Quotes |
| No law is stronger than is the public sentiment where it is to be enforced. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elemental purity of the curve of the human Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes |
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| Nothing from man's hands, no law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. Charles Sumner Quotes |
| Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. D.H. Lawrence Quotes |
| Law and justice are not always the same. Gloria Steinem Quotes |
| Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. Jeremy Bentham Quotes |
| There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings. Mohandas Gandhi Quotes |
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| The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed Ayn Rand Quotes |
| The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law. Japanese Proverb Quotes |
| If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly. Angelina Grimke Quotes |
| Useless laws weaken necessary laws Charles de Montesquieu Quotes |
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| Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals George Washington Quotes |
| The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism Heidi Hartmann Quotes |
| Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| Moral perfection is beyond reach but this is the law of human life Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes |
| I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement Calvin Coolidge Quotes |
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| Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy. Vaclav Havel Quotes |
| Nonviolence is the supreme law of life. Indian Proverb Quotes |
| This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous. Ralph Waldo Trine Quotes |
| Law is an ass, an idiot. Charles Dickens Quotes |
| I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy Mortimer Zuckerman Quotes |
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| The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. Clarence Darrow Quotes |
| No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God William Blackstone Quotes |
| So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community William Blackstone Quotes |
| The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. Horace Quotes |
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| He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
| Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion. William Blake Quotes |
| No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics. Irving R. Kaufman Quotes |
| Justice is incidental to law and order. J. Edgar Hoover Quotes |
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| This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quotes |
| The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
| Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live. Dorothy Parker Quotes |
| Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
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| Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids. Bill Maher Quotes |
| Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed Rene Descartes Quotes |
| For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under the law John Locke Quotes |
| No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. Plato Quotes |
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| The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quotes |
| Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. Dario Fo Quotes |
| The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes |
| Law students are trained in the case method, and to the lawyer everything in life looks like a case. Edward Packard Jr. Quotes |
| Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it Howard Mumford Jones Quotes |
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| An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. a crisis [that] calls for firmness and restraint. Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind. Orison Swett Marden Quotes |
| Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. Francis Bacon Sr. Quotes |
| It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect. Thomas Troward Quotes |
| All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice Edmund Burke Quotes |
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| It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. Hunter S. Thompson Quotes |
| There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not. Rush Limbaugh Quotes |
| A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. Patrick Murray Quotes |
| A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration. Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes |
| I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent. Ulysses S. Grant Quotes |
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| The first law of reason is what exists, exists;what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock principleall knowledge is build. He said that was The Foundation from which life is embraced. He said thinking is a choice, and that wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they means to discover them. Richard said reason is our only way of grasping reality - that it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking - to reject reason - but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see. Terry Goodkind Quotes |
| In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools Doris Lessing Quotes |
| The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still Roscoe Pound Quotes |
| To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. Otto von Bismarck Quotes |
| Law is a fort on a hill that armies cannot take or floods wash away Muhammad Quotes |
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| The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it Alexander Cockburn Quotes |
| Lawless are they that make their wills their law. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| Once victim, always victim -- that's the law! Thomas Hardy Quotes |
| If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end Herbert Hoover Quotes |
| What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary. Hillel Quotes |
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| Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. James Q. Wilson Quotes |
| The United States has been declared under Martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples will be shot. Anyone failing to attend morning school prayer will be shot. The number one enemy of progress is questions. National security is more important than individual rights. Sports broadcasts will proceed as scheduled. Shut up, be happy, obey all orders without question. At last everything is done for you. Jello Biafra Quotes |
| This is New York and there's no law against being annoying William Kunstler Quotes |
| Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order. The Talmud Quotes |
| Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power Thomas More Quotes |
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| It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. James Madison Quotes |
| The average lawyer is essentially a mechanic who works with a pen instead of a ball peen hammer. Robert Schmitt Quotes |
| In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge Robert Bork Quotes |
| As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. Pythagoras Quotes |
| Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches Otto von Bismarck Quotes |
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| The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I Karl Liebknecht Quotes |
| We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. Booker T. Washington Quotes |
| O! she's warm.If this be magic, let it be an artLawful as eating. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. Shana Alexander Quotes |
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| We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice / however much we might desire it. Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes |
| Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass Jane Bryant Quinn Quotes |
| A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns. Mario Puzo Quotes |
| The law is above the law, you know Dorothy Salisbury Davis Quotes |
| . . . an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. Edith Wharton Quotes |
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| A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore. Edwin Meese III Quotes |
| We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us Robert Atkyns Quotes |
| I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, "Get the hell off my property." Joan Rivers Quotes |
| Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him John Selden Quotes |
| I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes |
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| Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code. Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. (Daniel 9:13) Bible Quotes |
| Laws undertake to punish only overt acts Charles de Montesquieu Quotes |
| The law always limits every power it gives. David Hume Quotes |
| The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances David Davis Quotes |
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| When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband. Shana Alexander Quotes |
| We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. Jules Verne Quotes |
| If the divorced are remarried civilly, they find themselves in a situation that objectively contravenes God's law. Consequently, they cannot receive Holy Communion as long as this situation persists. This norm is not at all a punishment or a discrimination against the divorced and remarried, but rather expresses an objective situation that of itself renders impossible the reception of Holy Communion: '. . . If these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage'. Pope Benedict XVI Quotes |
| Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law. L. Ron Hubbard Quotes |
| The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. Larry Wall Quotes |
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| If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? / Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. Bible Quotes |
| Law and religion are two forces which govern the conduct of men. At times they act as handmaids to each other. At other times they act as check and counter-check. Of the two forces, Law is personal while religion is impersonal. Law being personal it is ca |
