Law Quotes

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.

Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Law is mind without reason.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

The deal we made was that if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota - that's what they wanted, the invitation - if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota, he would guarantee South Dakota 400 Citibank jobs.

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.

Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.