Law Quotes

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?

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

The law has no power over heroes.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Law is a bottomless pit.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

I think gay marriage should be the national law.

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

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

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.