Quotes on Law

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

Author: Mahmoud Abbas

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

Author: Floyd Abrams

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

Author: John Adams

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

Author: Freda Adler

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

Author: Sasha Alexander

Law is king of all.

Author: Henry Alford

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

Author: Samuel Alito

The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.

Author: Richard Allen

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

Author: Mohammed al-Sahaf

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.

Author: Aldrich Ames

Law is a bottomless pit.

Author: John Arbuthnot

The law is reason, free from passion.

Author: Aristotle

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Author: Norman Augustine

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.

Author: Spencer Bachus

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

Author: F. Bailey

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Author: Honore Balzac

I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.

Author: Roy Bean

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

Author: Craig Benson

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Author: Jeremy Bentham

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

Author: Bob Black

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

Author: William Blackstone

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

Author: Ruben Blades

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

Author: Ruben Blades

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

Author: Derek Bok

The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

Author: Robert Bolt

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

Author: James Bovard

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

Author: Louis Brandeis

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

Author: William Brennan

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

Author: John Bright

There is no law governing all things.

Author: Giordano Bruno

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.

Author: Martin Buren

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Author: Samuel Butler

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.

Author: Arthur Capper

Law never is, but is always about to be.

Author: Benjamin Cardozo

Law is a very addictive profession.

Author: George Carman

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

Author: Howie Carr

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

Author: Steve Chabot

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Author: Raymond Chandler

I am ashamed the law is such an ass.

Author: George Chapman

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

Author: George Chapman

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Author: Winston Churchill

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Author: Marcus Cicero

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?

Author: John Clark

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

Author: Ramsey Clark

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Author: Adam Clayton

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Author: Grover Cleveland

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

Author: Johnnie Cochran

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

Author: Bainbridge Colby

One with the law is a majority.

Author: Calvin Coolidge

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

Author: Alex Cox

Necessity has no law.

Author: Oliver Cromwell

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Author: Aleister Crowley

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

Author: Mario Cuomo

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

Author: Christopher Darden

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Author: Clarence Darrow

There can be no liberty without the law.

Author: Cecil DeMille

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Author: Cecil DeMille

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.

Author: K. Drexler

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Author: Will Durant

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Author: Bob Dylan

I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.

Author: Esther Dyson

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

Author: Maria Edgeworth

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Author: Henry Fielding

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.

Author: Henry Fox

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

Author: Hans Frank

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

Author: J. Fulbright

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Author: James Garfield

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Author: James Garfield

That which is not just is not law.

Author: William Garrison

I was the law and order.

Author: Frank Gifford

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.

Author: Angelina Grimke

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

Author: William Hague

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

Author: Fawn Hall

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

Author: Learned Hand

There ought to be a law against necessity.

Author: E. Harburg

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

Author: Paul Harris

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Author: Hermann Hesse

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.

Author: Rudolf Hiferding

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

Author: Douglas Hofstadter

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Author: Charles Hughes

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

Author: William Jackson

I like practicing law.

Author: Bill Janklow

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

It's a bomb. I've already called law enforcement. Let's get out of here.

Author: Richard Jewell

When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

Author: Bobby Jindal

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

Author: Nancy Johnson

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

Author: Chief Joseph

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Author: Immanuel Kant

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Author: Thomas Keller

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

Author: Jack Kevorkian

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

Author: Norman Lamm

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

Author: Richard Lamm

We don't break the law.

Author: Kenneth Lay

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

Author: John Lennon

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

Author: Edward Levi

I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.

Author: Monica Lewinsky

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

Author: Titus Livius

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

Author: Seth Lloyd

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

Author: Maimonides

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

Author: Henry Maine

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Author: Malcolm Malcolm X

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

Author: Nong Manh

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

Author: Thomas Mann

Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

Author: Chris Matthews

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Author: Bill Mauldin

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

Author: Bill McCollum

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

Author: Matthew McGrory

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

Author: George Mead

I enjoyed practicing law.

Author: George Mitchell

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Author: Charles Montesquieu

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

Author: Roy Moore

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

Author: Roy Moore

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Author: Thomas More

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.

Author: Charles Morgan

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

Author: Constance Motley

But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.

Author: Robert Mueller

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

Author: Kary Mullis

I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues.

Author: Len Murray

Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

Author: Eliot Ness

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

Author: Aaron Neville

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Author: Michael Newdow

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Author: Louis Nizer

Either the law exists, or it does not.

Author: Andre Norton

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

Author: Chris Noth

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

Author: Ben Okri

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

Author: Thomas Paine

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Author: Emmeline Pankhurst

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

Author: Gilbert Parker

Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what's coming across that border today are bad guys!

Author: Russell Pearce

In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

Author: Jean-Marie Pen

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

Author: Richard Perle

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

Author: William Petersen

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Author: Wendell Phillips

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Author: Pablo Picasso

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Author: Plato

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

Author: Frederick Pollock

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

Author: Roscoe Pound

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

Author: Vladimir Putin

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

Author: Irving Ravetch

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

Author: Ronald Reagan

It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.

Author: Janet Reno

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

Author: Paul Ricoeur

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

Author: Paul Ricoeur