Law Quotes

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

Law and justice are not always the same.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

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.

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

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.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.