Laws Quotes

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you're doing, not just who you're doing.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.

The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that are passed by Congress.