The Law Quotes
Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.
The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
Once you start believing that something is possible, you start to let it in to your awareness and it starts to become true to you.
Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.
It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.
I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you arecruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.
The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.
I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.
Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible.
No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
The presence of an active, energetic, successful man, or set of men, in a place, will permeate the place with positive vibrations that will stimulate all who abide there.
Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.
There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.
It will not do to say that it is out of woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were so, then it should be also out of her sphere to submit to them.
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.
If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.
In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.
Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.
The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you are already that ideal.