Laws Quotes

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

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.

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.

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.

All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

The laws of this world are for children.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

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