Law Quotes - Page 227

... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.

Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Laws are inoperative in war

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

USA Freedom Act did, however, take away a valuable tool that allowed the National Security Agency and other law - and other intelligence agencies to quickly and rapidly access phone records and match them up with other phone records to see who terrorists have been calling.

What does have a chance of becoming law is a process that begins with securing the border. Currently the border is not secure and not just immigrants are coming across, but also drugs, weapons a whole series of problems. And I think that if you can prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control, I think that the American people are willing to do something very reasonable about people who have been here for many years, who are not criminals, who are going to pay a fine, who are going to pay taxes, who are working.

At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and fateful laws while our hearts stand by startled and passive. We come to its assistanceRecognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we bring back to life the others. Since we possess its song engraved in its totality within us, we do not need for a woman to tell us the beginning--filled with admiration inspired by beauty--to find the continuation.

What India needs most is a unified food law.

I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a right to dream dreams, if they are not contradicted by the evident laws of God's word, or God's world.

I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.

Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.