Laws Quotes

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.

It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.