Famous Quotes - Tags - Laws And The Law

  • A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress... More
  • All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the... More
  • An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. More
  • And thus we rust Life’s iron chain
    Degraded and alone:
    And some men curse, and some men... More
  • Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of... More
  • As soon as you begin to say “We have always done things this way—perhaps that might be a... More
  • Because Time cannot alter but obey Fate’s laws.
    [Chorus:] Then happy those whom Fate, that... More
  • Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law ... cannot be found in a rational state... More
  • Educational ... legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the... More
  • He will place a tax on the air you breathe and on the bread you eat; he will give you a... More
  • I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any... More
  • I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent... More
  • In a democracy—even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-élitist one—the greatest... More
  • In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a... More
  • It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can... More
  • It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to... More
  • It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and... More
  • Keep out of Chancery.... It’s being ground to bits in a slow mill; it’s being roasted at a... More
  • Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. More
  • Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the... More
  • Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of... More
  • Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them. More
  • Laws, like houses, lean on one another. More
  • Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best... More
  • Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the... More
  • Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that... More
  • Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by... More
  • No civilization ... would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide... More
  • No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law... More
  • Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell... More
  • Petty laws breed great crimes. More
  • Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or... More
  • Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. More
  • Such is the caprice of Romans ... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an... More
  • The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws... More
  • The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life—to reduce... More
  • The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a... More
  • The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict... More
  • The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and... More
  • The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is... More
  • The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. More
  • The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right... More
  • The law often allows what honor forbids. More
  • The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or... More
  • The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the... More
  • The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good... More
  • The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law. More
  • The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a... More
  • The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare... More
  • The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. More
  • There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the... More
  • Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal... More
  • To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. More
  • We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us... More
  • We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can... More
  • What? Rome dares not desire what you desire? How do you use your absolute power? More
  • When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. More
  • Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It’s what we have because we can’t have... More

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