Law is order, and good law is good order.
Aristotle
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
William Shakespeare
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
William Shakespeare
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
Sir George Savile
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
Sir George Savile
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James Madison
There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
Greta Garbo
Law never is, but is always about to be.
Benjamin Cardozo
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
Glaser and Way
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.
James Bryce
If we had a girl, my wife wanted to call her "Sue" -- a lovely name, but which for Jews is generally a verb...
Dennis Wolfberg
If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
Angelina Grimke
What power has law where only money rules.
Gaius Petronius
[Law is] an odd profession that presents its greatest scholarship in student-run publications.
Morton J. Horwitz
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
John Paul Jones
I used to want to be a Lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
Max Walker
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
William Blackstone
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman Mailer
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
Sir John Powell
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
Necessity has no law.
William Langland
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
Cornelius Tacitus
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond Chandler
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion.
Henry George
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Otto von Bismarck
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
John Selden
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.
Jeff Melvoin
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be disabled:) for the labors of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers.
John Smith
No law is quite appropriate for all.
Titus Livy
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
Isabel Paterson
As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
Isabel Paterson
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
William Blackstone
Good laws have their origins in bad morals.
Ambrosius Macrobius
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
Chaim Weizmann
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.
Irving R. Kaufman
The law itself follows gold.
Sextus Propertius
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
Andy Grove
The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
Dr. John Marshall
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
Felix Frankfurter
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
Byron R. White
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
Donald H. Rumsfeld
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
Shana Alexander
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.
Archbishop Ireland
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
A. Whitney Brown
Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
John Arbuthnot
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
Gerry Spence
The law: It has honored us; may we honor it.
Daniel Webster
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
Arcesilaus
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Anton Chekhov
Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
Abraham Lincoln
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Larry Wall
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
Mark Twain
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius Caesar
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
Sir Thomas More
The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.
Roscoe Pound
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Charles de Montesquieu
Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
Edna Buchanan
The lawyer's first thought in the morning is how to handle the case of the ringing alarm clock.
Edward Packard, Jr.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.
Stephen Hawking
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; to severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?
William Wilberforce
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
German Proverb
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
Alexander Hamilton
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Bertrand Russell
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Remy De Gourmont
Our challenge is we have to work inside the laws of the countries we operate in.
Robin Pembrooke
All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.
Marilyn French
Public notification laws make the public feel better, but they certainly don't target the people who haven't been caught.
Joseph Giovannoni
It's like having great in-laws staying with you. You're sad they're leaving, but there's a time for them to go. And they're leaving a pot of jam for you.
Irv Lippman
There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
Andrew Johnson
She supported it as a first step toward addressing the illegal immigration problem and better enforcing our laws.
Kevin Callahan
We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.
Adolf Eichmann
Maybe look at the zoning laws to do it so it is easier for them [businesses] to set up shop.
Christopher Clark
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
Vittorio Alfieri
I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.
George Carlin
Jack Davis doesn't get to pick and choose what the laws are. No one should be above the law, even a millionaire like Jack Davis.
Henry Wojtaszek
The antitrust laws would make it hard for Coke and Pepsi to buy more carbonated soft drinks brands.
John Sicher
It's an interesting phenomenon. I think a lot of it revolves around immigration laws.
Arsalan Iftikhar
Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
Larry Summers
We can't pick and choose who we deal with just because of the laws in their countries.
Mike Phelan
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Alexis Carrel
The transaction would violate the antitrust laws by allowing two firms, Gerber and Heinz/Beech-Nut, to control 98 percent of the U.S. baby food market.
Richard Parker
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.
Douglas William Jerrold
That (law) is absolutely essential given their financial system and the amount of commerce that goes on in Macau, ... But it's not just passing laws, it's implementing them and enforcing them.
Stuart Levey
The Bank of Italy scrupulously followed European Union and Italian laws.
Antonio Fazio
Our laws are reflection of our culture, and in our culture it's not acceptable to torture small animals.
Joseph Moore
These laws are applicable anywhere in the province.
Michael Baker
The Federation Council will keep an eye on the law?s implementation and effectiveness and whether it matches the set tasks.
Sergei Mironov
Wherever these laws have been in place for five years or more, parents and students agree, it's good.
Steve Meyers
He just refuses to obey the laws, ... It is becoming ridiculous. It's an eyesore and it's also bringing our tax values down.
Jane Kennedy
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Luther Burbank
These are human beings who have a long history of failing to comply with laws, and were not going to say this is a cure-all. But we hope we can see at least a modest reduction.
Russ Marlan
He's dead, and until he was proven guilty, which he was never proven guilty, I can only standby what our laws say in this country. He's an innocent man and he's dead and we have to pick up the pieces and go on.
Warren White
These are the two primary access laws, and they permit the public to hold their government agencies accountable for their actions.
Teri Henning
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C. Clarke
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
David Gerrold
Sons- and daughters-in-laws are going after family businesses now -- and it's only going to increase.
Jacalyn Barnett
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Frederic Bastiat
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The ultimate aim of these experimental laws is to allow for more creativity.
Rod Macqueen
He could leave as early as tomorrow. This is proof that the European anti- terrorism laws work.
Paolo Iorio
There's laws ... they need to be enforced.
Janice Davis
We took this to the networks about a month ago to get their approval, and it wasn't that easy, because of the subliminal advertising laws.
Laurie Schalow
It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
Kofi Annan
We essentially already have state and county laws, and the county seems to be doing a credible job with the problem.
Frank Walker
The laws effectively require that white executives replace themselves.
Lumkile Mondi
It would really wake up the Congress and Senate. You can't just make laws against people and not expect repercussions.
Charles Merrill
We're fighting for our lives, yet we comply with more laws than any other processing plants that I know of.
Jim Bradshaw
I want to know who we can count on to be there. It's even more important that we respect the laws when we get there.
Gloria Hernandez
The government should make use of the laws we already have on the books (to stop pornography).
Vivi Widyawati
Hard cases make bad laws ... We have decided not to work with these disreputable right-wing organizations and individuals advancing [Jones'] cause.
Patricia Ireland
All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
It's not just a water company problem. Laws have to be enacted to close some of these loopholes so that companies can't get away with this.
Joseph Kotran
The first thing to do to improve things for day laborers is to have more of these centers. The second thing is to have the government enforce the labor laws more consistently.
Pablo Alvarado
We would always advise state agencies to avoid holding events at venues that don't recognize or comply with state and local laws.
Saleem Cheeks
The laws in existence at the time these events occurred do not permit us to initiate criminal charges.
Tom Reilly
Towns have very little control over stopping annexations as the laws currently exist.
Dave Combs
Some new language has been added to these laws, and it will be up to the prosecutors in each county to relate to each agency how he or she interprets these laws.
Jimmy Morgan
Our laws and regulations are not set up to pick and choose, ... It should be across the board, not just those deemed politically correct by a special interest.
Chris West
If they are set free, it would be a violation of international laws.
Jose Pertierra
The F.E.C.'s claims and legal theories are a bizarre interpretation of the club's mission, the Constitution, the laws adopted by Congress and their own regulations.
Pat Toomey
The strike is an increasingly weak tool. Labor laws are not going to help you at all.
Brendan Cummins
He was going door-to-door looking for school crossing guards and went to my in-laws' house, ... They said they were too old, but told him to see me.
Karen Turner
Laws are two-by-fours, ... They are very broad. . . . They retard innovation.
Christine Varney
Any time you can get in an automobile and drink and drive and take an innocent life, the laws need to be changed. The laws need to be changed.
Bryan Harris
Many of these countries do have certain laws in place. The issue is enforcement.
Ruben Rodriguez
Blood is flowing: the blood of Jews, the blood of Africans. It is all red. And by the laws of social science, other blood will flow too.
Borukh Gorin
The bank fully complies with Hong Kong's laws and regulations and has checks in place to prevent money laundering and other illegal activities.
Michael Chan
The law's the law, and you have to follow the law.
Tom Vincent
These are considered laws of general application.
Michael Baker
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore De Balzac
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It shows how difficult it is to interpret these campaign laws.
Michael Pancer
Customs are more powerful than laws.
The Talmud
Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
Suzanne Lafollette
The fees they charge for late payment and so forth actually circumvent usury laws.
Rick Koster
[Every laboratory experiment to] produce some of the simplest chemicals of life has completely failed, ... The information carried in DNA cannot be explained by the laws of physics and chemistry.
William Harris
As I said from the beginning, Col. Frye didn't break any laws ... and he never should have been arrested or charged.
Gloria Fletcher
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Jules Verne
What happens is almost a competition among communities for more restrictive laws, ... The trouble is as we create all these new obstacles, we may be making them more dangerous.
Jill Levenson
That is my fear. That if these laws pass in Congress, that is going to be tomorrow's America.
Partha Banerjee
They weren't really enforcing any animal laws.
Marjorie Boyd
I just got fed up. I was ready to blow up. This country is about enforcing our laws and if we don't, we'll have chaos worse than we already do.
Albert Ellis
There have been very little teeth in the affordable housing laws.
Andrew Powell
You have got to educate people, and you need to enforce existing laws, so that people do not intrude onto grade crossings and that people are more careful as they approach grade crossings.
Cliff Black
There are a myriad of immigration laws that, when looked at through the common sense of justice, don't add up.
George Matthew Adams
Penalties are getting stronger and more laws are enacted that include kids.
Thomas Hodgson
As we know, there are still problems with the labor regulations, tax laws, infrastructure and red-tape bureaucracy.
Andrew Steer
Today's laws are not only anti-immigrant, today's laws are anti-American.
John Destefano
Our laws are very broad about what is a public record. They can be in any format.
Charlotte Bergeron
It's not illegal. But in my mind, this is completely unethical. It's breaking all the laws of pharmacy and medicine.
Andy Troszok
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver
The failure of love: that's what all laws are really.
Colman Mccarthy
The law has changed, but you don't see it yet in the courts when verdicts are handed out. Judges don't always follow the new laws, they follow their own feelings too.
Naime Kardas
Unfortunately you can't rely on common sense when it comes to highway-safety laws.
Lisa Lewis
The executive power of our country is not an imperial power. The president has demonstrated a dangerous disregard for our Constitution and our laws with his authorization for this illegal program.
Caroline Fredrickson
We think that allowing an institution like NSA to operate basically outside our laws is very dangerous.
Bill Sulzman
We can, when laws have been violated, hold people accountable to the laws that have been violated.
Don Degabrielle
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
Stuart Chase
Respect our laws and our courts.
Claire Buchan
He (Mahathir) expects the public to obey laws including restrictions against gatherings, but he himself has cast aside laws and the federal constitution.
Anwar Ibrahim
I suggest the government bring themselves closer to God by implementing his rules and laws because these happenings are warnings from God for all of us.
Abu Bakar Ba'asyir
We will support the package of laws which ease the tax burden and develop our industry ... but financial and economic measures alone will not save the country.
Gennady Zyuganov
What is new is the extent of immigration, some of it legal, some of it not, in new communities across the country. They don't know how to deal with it so they freak out and pass laws.
John Trasviña
ICE enforced 400 to 500 different laws from drug smuggling to human trafficking. We could have stopped doing everything else but document fraud and benefit fraud, and we'd still be busy.
Brian Moskowitz
The landfill changed the facility boundary so that it now includes about all of the Lafarge slag facility acreage, all seeking to be grandfathered under the old laws.
Lauraine Breda
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