Laws Quotes

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

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.

I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.