The Law Quotes

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit

Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.

I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.

... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

I like practicing law.

It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves.

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.

The law's the law, but people are people.

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

It's like a mathematical law, Grace.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you?

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.