Laws Quotes

Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.

I am not a promoter of more laws, just better ones.

If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.