If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. Votes: 2
Winston ChurchillIf we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. Votes: 2
Louis D. BrandeisLaws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Votes: 2
Jonathan SwiftYou cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. Votes: 2
C. S. LewisIf we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. Votes: 2
Joichi ItoAt his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. Votes: 2
AristotleMy father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next Votes: 0
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/search_results.html#AFkh8uD9L4AiZ6mt.99As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.
John Coleridge, 1st Baron ColeridgeThe most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing.
Sir Henry Roy Forbes HarrodThe great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
Friedrich August von HayekWhat we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
Christian Nestell BoveeThe victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
Charles Caleb ColtonOver events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
John William DraperI think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
Voltairine de CleyreThere is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.
William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldThere is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCriminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
George Bernard ShawTo struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.
George Leigh MalloryIt is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David ThoreauLaw rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStraining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
Robert A. HeinleinThe sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.
Michel de MontaigneCertainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.
Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of HardwickeThere is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.
Stephanie Tubbs JonesTrue generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
Oliver GoldsmithThere is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
George William RussellHistory may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
Reinhold NiebuhrI've played a lot of different cops in a lot of different law enforcement agencies.
Samuel L. JacksonI must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgePretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.
Arthur ScargillTo delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.
Dillon BurroughsIf liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
George Stillman HillardThe first law of social communication is whenever you meet anyone, exalt him or her.
Harbhajan Singh YogiIn no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
Philip James BaileyIf I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.
Olusegun ObasanjoA nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
Benjamin DisraeliIn a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
Calvin CoolidgeThis isn't just a job. This is a service profession. We uphold the law, babe." Ranger
Janet EvanovichThe dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
Mahatma GandhiNature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.
Robert SchumannThe history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
Algernon SidneyThe first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.
Bjarne Stroustrupa mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.
Caroline Pafford MillerRemember the law of the home: Junk expands to fill the space available, plus one room.
Deniece SchofieldAnyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
Henry David ThoreauIt's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.
Indira GandhiA question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.
Jefferson DavisIt may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.
Martin Luther King, Jr.It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society
R.J. RushdoonyOld radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.
Susan Elizabeth PhillipsThe negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
Abraham LincolnSin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state
Augustus Hopkins StrongHere is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.
Cynthia HeimelI think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.
David RemnickThe most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.
Frank GaffneyCulture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.
H. L. MenckenDeath is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
Henry David ThoreauThe Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.
Mahatma GandhiThe body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.
Swami VivekanandaThere can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.
Walter LippmannWhen honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]
Anne BishopNothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.
Charles SumnerNo great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?
Emma GoldmanIt is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
Fyodor DostoevskyManners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends....
George Bernard ShawTo give law enforcement the additional tools it needs to track down terror here at home.
George W. BushThe law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.
Gilbert BurnetDisarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.
John F. KennedyDonald Trump will do what he is told is the right thing to do in complying with the law.
Kellyanne ConwaySatyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
Mahatma GandhiMost Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.
Sam BrownbackThose people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.
Warren BeattyIf you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the universe.
Werner ErhardI'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.
Zephyr TeachoutI'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
Cillian MurphyFirst I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law
Claude ChabrolNo man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Votes: 4 Theodore Roosevelt
The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies. Votes: 2 Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions. Votes: 1 Cory Booker
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. Votes: 6 Orson Welles
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. Votes: 3 Martin Luther King, Jr.
We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest. Votes: 1 Rima Fakih
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. Votes: 4 Harold S. Geneen
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. Votes: 3 Julius Caesar
We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries. Votes: 1 Pete Coors
We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries. Votes: 1 Pete Coors
Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer. Votes: 4 Luc Ferrari
Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public. Votes: 3 Al Franken
The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation. Votes: 4 Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. Votes: 2 Isambard K. Brunel
Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world. Votes: 3 Marc Andreessen
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal. Votes: 1 Suzanne Fields
We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law. Votes: 3 Robin Gross
Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another. Votes: 4 Robert Reich
Boys always get the best eyelashes; it's like some kind of cosmic law. And half-breed kids get some kind of extra help there from genetics, too. Votes: 4 Lilith Saintcrow
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. Votes: 4 Louis D. Brandeis
President Obama's reelection started the countdown for lawmakers to address the fiscal cliff and the statutory debt limit. Unless the President and House Republicans can agree on changes to current law, the U.S. economy will be in recession by spring. Votes: 2 Mark Zandi
When the purpose of the appointment to ,cohabit with the widow bas been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter in law. Votes: 4 Guru Nanak
There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives. Votes: 1 Astro Teller
Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings. Votes: 3 Ezra Taft Benson
One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation. Votes: 5 Ted Cruz
No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had. Votes: 4 John F. Kennedy
Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. Votes: 3 Jim Jeffords
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work. Votes: 3 Ken Livingstone
Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest. Votes: 3 Barack Obama
No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang. Votes: 2 Michio Kaku
Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality. Votes: 3 Louis de Bernieres
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? Votes: 2 Dick Clark
My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.' Votes: 2 Nita Ambani
I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me. Votes: 1 Demetri Martin
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging. Votes: 4 Denis Healey
The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made. Votes: 3 Ferruccio Busoni
Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority. Votes: 1 John Culberson
The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches. Votes: 1 David Souter
If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law. Votes: 1 Victoria Osteen
God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man. Votes: 2 Manny Pacquiao
I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job. Votes: 1 Elizabeth Warren
Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. Votes: 6 Michael Badnarik
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms. Votes: 2 Jane Harman
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. Votes: 3 Stokely Carmichael
Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good. Votes: 3 Saint Augustine
All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign. Votes: 3 Ban Ki-moon
Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law. Votes: 2 Richard Lamm
First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot. Votes: 1 George Crook
Content zips around the Internet thanks to code - programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws. Votes: 3 Jonathan Zittrain
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. Votes: 4 Ludwig Quidde
Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie. Votes: 4 Chris Rock
Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge. Votes: 1 Sonia Sotomayor
Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution. Votes: 1 Karen DeCrow
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin. Votes: 3 David Mamet
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. Votes: 2 James Earl Jones
For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton. Votes: 4 Brian Kernighan
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. Votes: 2 James Thurber
I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics. Votes: 1 David E. Kelley
For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel: Votes: 4 Matthew Henry
Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral. Votes: 3 Joseph Farah
I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see. Votes: 1 Jude Law
My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts. Votes: 5 Bikram Choudhury
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when you're in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. It's a great trick. Votes: 2 Stephan Pastis
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made. Votes: 3 Mark Twain
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. Votes: 4 George Eliot
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. Votes: 7 Frederic Bastiat
To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order. Votes: 6 Arthur Henderson
I've always been a big fan of 'Law & Order: SVU.' I think Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni are just incredible. Votes: 1 Reid Scott
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. Votes: 1 Alexander Herzen
In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative. Votes: 5 Ted Cruz
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness. Votes: 1 Ernest Holmes
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. Votes: 2 Hermann von Helmholtz
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes. Votes: 3 Voltaire
All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people. Votes: 2 Aung San Suu Kyi
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. Votes: 1 Robert Byrd
Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation. Votes: 4 Charice Pempengco
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down. Votes: 3 H. Rap Brown
Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious. Votes: 4 Duff Goldman
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. Votes: 1 Abraham Lincoln
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. Votes: 4 Denis Diderot
Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks. Votes: 3 Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. Votes: 4 Barbara Boxer
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation. Votes: 2 Barbara Olson
We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic. Votes: 1 Rick Larsen
The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways. Votes: 3 Eric Holder
Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them. Votes: 2 Spencer Bachus
Since September 11, 2001, many in this nation and this Congress have a deeper appreciation for the importance of the sacrifices made by our law enforcement officers. Votes: 1 Jerry Costello
Hillary Clinton has never created a single job other than government jobs or the staffers that work for her. She doesn't know the first thing about a private sector business other than being in the Rose Law Firm. Votes: 3 Rush Limbaugh
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms. Votes: 4 Jane Harman
Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer. Votes: 1 Lisa Leslie
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Votes: 2 Samuel Johnson
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. Votes: 1 Edward Gibbon
Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa. Votes: 1 Walter Salles
Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations. Votes: 3 J. William Fulbright
If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa. Votes: 3 Alton Brown
The law of attraction is always working whether you believe it or understand it or not. Votes: 4 Bob Proctor
The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ. Votes: 1 Randall Terry
So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past. Votes: 2 Warren Farrell
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. Votes: 3 Euclid
The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist. Votes: 3 Marion Barry
I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to. Votes: 1 Michael Connelly
There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone. Votes: 6 Sylvester Stallone
But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy. Votes: 4 Bernhard von Bulow
Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not. Votes: 5 Mahatma Gandhi
Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth. Votes: 3 Albert Einstein
I will leave the U.S. Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled. Votes: 1 Mario Diaz-Balart
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ. Votes: 1 John Wycliffe
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal. Votes: 1 Roxane Gay
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children. Votes: 4 Wendy E. Long
If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package. Votes: 1 Ted Nugent
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals. Votes: 3 Michael Pollan
When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity. Votes: 4 Philip Hammond
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. Votes: 6 Charles Morgan
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. Votes: 1 Karl Lagerfeld
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms. Votes: 1 Jane Harman
Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers. Votes: 4 H. L. Mencken
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. Votes: 2 Will Durant
You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby. Votes: 2 Michael Steele
You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby. Votes: 2 Michael Steele
Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems. Votes: 2 Jonathan Zittrain
The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law. Votes: 1 Philip E. Berger
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. Votes: 1 Milan Kundera
The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services. Votes: 2 Saxby Chambliss
Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution. Votes: 1 Benigno Aquino III
Homeland Security is armed and locked and ready to blow your brains out if you start protesting martial law. Votes: 3 Gerald Celente
My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible. Votes: 3 John W. Rogers, Jr.
5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger. Votes: 3 Sun Tzu
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. Votes: 4 H. L. Mencken
I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.' Votes: 2 Joan Rivers
Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was like murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Votes: 3 Katie Aselton
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. Votes: 6 Barbara Kingsolver
Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory. Votes: 1 Murray Rothbard
No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law. Votes: 3 Pope Paul VI
The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society. Votes: 4 Albert Einstein
God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man. Votes: 1 Manny Pacquiao
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law. Votes: 2 Earl Warren
It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system. Votes: 3 Samora Machel
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker. Votes: 1 Annie Besant
That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways. Votes: 2 Mark Twain
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law. Votes: 1 Wilfred Owen
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. Votes: 3 Edward Gibbon
I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight. Votes: 4 Elizabeth Edwards
As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law. Votes: 3 Norman Lamm
Content zips around the Internet thanks to code - programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws. Votes: 4 Jonathan Zittrain
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers. Votes: 4 Pat Robertson
Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college. Votes: 3 Robert Reich
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Votes: 1 Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation. Votes: 1 Charice Pempengco
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected. Votes: 1 Charles Krauthammer
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes. Votes: 5 Voltaire
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles. Votes: 1 Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll. Votes: 2 Philip Sidney
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. Votes: 5 Jonathan Sacks
Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the Freedom and Justice Party will be the conductors of these goals, Votes: 4 Mohammed Morsi
I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit. Votes: 7 Ashley Scott
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. Votes: 5 Solon
The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees. Votes: 6 Wesley Morris
It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote. Votes: 2 Al Sharpton
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. Votes: 4 Jean Giraudoux
The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. Votes: 2 John Marshall Harlan
Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish." Votes: 3 Italo Svevo
Theory states that Allah's law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair. Votes: 1 Hassanal Bolkiah
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. Votes: 3 Immanuel Kant
I filled in for Papa Roach because we weren't doing much. Unwritten Law had a few more shows booked, but I got the call to fill in again at the end of the year. I was like, "I have to make myself available to these guys." Votes: 3 Tony Palermo
No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Votes: 5 Rahm Emanuel
You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle. Votes: 2 Jude Law
Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters. Votes: 1 Cynthia McKinney
I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs. Votes: 2 David Dinkins
These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border. Votes: 1 Paul Cellucci
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off. Votes: 1 Randall Terry
Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. Votes: 2 Louise Mensch
Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite. Votes: 1 Heather Brooke
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. Votes: 0 Carrie Chapman Catt
Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural. Votes: 1 Ed Rendell
Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law. Votes: 1 Don Baylor
The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law. Votes: 1 Benjamin Walker
It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom. One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it's fair to say that it has its upside and its downside. Votes: 1 Pippa Middleton