The Law Quotes

The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

What India needs most is a unified food law.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

I have not revoked this law, nor will I, for it is everlasting, and those who will enter into my glory must obey the conditions thereof; Even so Amen.

The only laws are paradox, humor and change.

The great Sir Isaac Newton, He once made a valid proclamation, That the forces equal to a nominated mass, when multiplied by acceleration That was the law of motion.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov't.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

Place your attention on what you wish to experience.

As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. No Jew can be right on the criminal-law issue.

Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

Christianity is part of the law of England.

Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.

I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

A bride who is bullied by her mother-in-law will herself become a bad mother-in-law.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.