The Law Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense.

If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

Do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These laws are available to every person who has the faith and the courage to use them.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

Like the sun, we are attracted to people who shine with warmth and brightness.

All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

What you resist, persists

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.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.

If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.

The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence.

The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give.

The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law.

The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Thought impregnated with love becomes invincible. (Charles Haanel)

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

Thoughts create only according to their pitch, intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibrational plane.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole of the law. I can live with a law like that.

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.