Law Quotes - Page 259

This is that law of the Gospel; whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them.

From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought to be an imitation of the law of Moses concerning leprosy, wherein the leprous man was commanded to be kept out of the camp of Israel for a certain time, after which time being judged by the priest to be clean, he was admitted into the camp after a solemn washing. And this may therefore be a type of the washing in baptism, wherein such men as are cleansed of the leprosy of Sin by Faith, are received into the church with the solemnity of baptism.

[Gresham's Law]: Bad money drives out good money.

The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved.

The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law.

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.

Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.

As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.

The specific question was visa overstays.Current federal law requires a biometric exit-entry system when you come in on a visa. And the [Barack] Obama administration is just ignoring federal law. Forty percent of illegal immigration is not people who cross the borders illegally. It's people who come legally on a visa and never leave.

We don't have storm troopers that just knock on the door of every American citizen. We don't do that for any crime. But when we have evidence that a particular person has committed a crime, we send law enforcement to apprehend them.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

...those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.

If you are not enjoying yourself, you are wasting time.

It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed, for instance, as Orthodox Jews do, that women are unclean during their menstrual periods.

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

Congress also did something new, which is, they delayed for two years two new taxes - one on medical devices and one on high-end health insurance plans. Those taxes are supposed to help pay for President Obama's health care law, but they're really unpopular.

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

The day was dark as a lawyer's soul.

Law and order comes from having respect for one another.

I will miss the contact with the people - the privilege of trying to communicate to people every day that the court system is going to work for them the way it's supposed to work. That doesn't guarantee they're going to get the result they want, but the court is going to listen and follow the law and try to make a fair decision. That is an awesome privilege and responsibility I will miss.