Law Quotes - Page 177

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first comports with, the last violates, the fundamental principles of good government; and, whatever may be the forms of the Constitution, unites all power in the same hands.

The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.

Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and to be taxed by my own representatives only. What will become of the law and courts of justice without this? The shadow may remain, but the substance will be gone. I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously discharge the duties imposed on me, and conduct my affairs of office impartially and with justice to everyone.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it.

Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up.

I still got a lot of grudges, it's high time we take out some judges.

I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.

Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.

Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you end up with some kind of chain of command or system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it. Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you.