The Law Quotes

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

All you need is time... and you have it... NOW

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Not the labors of my hands Can fulfill thy Law's demands: Could my zeal no respite know, Could my tears forever flow, All for Sin could not atone: Thou must save, and Thou alone!

Law never is, but is always about to be.

As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

This is the sheriff you’re talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down on illegal immigration as long as the laws are there.

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.

There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling.

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

Where there is no common power, there is no law

One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.

By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.

Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.

My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space of the human being.

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

I'm an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up.

We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

I expect from our judges that their verdicts are also inspired by Talmudic law - and not only by common law or European justice systems.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.

Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.

According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.