The Law Quotes

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.

By law, all buildings should be white.

Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.

I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.

Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

I attract to my life whatever I give my attention, energy and focus to, whether positive or negative.

Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

Robert Fischer is a law unto himself

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–Neville Goddard

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it.

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book.

You will be led to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way.

Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back.

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.

Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

The key to successful aging is...to pay as little attention to it as possible.

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn its flow, its laws, and to try and use this knowledge to his own ends.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.