Law Quotes - Page 293

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict.

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

I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we were meant for another planet altogether, with other arrangements, and other laws, and other, grimmer skies. I try to imagine it, our true place, off on the far side of the galaxy, whirling and whirling. And the ones who were meant for here, are they out there, baffled and homesick, like us? No, they would have become extinct long ago. How could they survive, these gentle earthlings, in a world that was made to contain us.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.

Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.

Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

I've been compared to Jude Law my whole career.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

Cannabis, just like morphine, has its usage in medicine. It's unpardonable that authorities forbid sick people access to this medicament and in majesty of law permit to sell cigarettes.

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

To every American, he [Donald Trump] is saying to them, "You elect me and we're going to fix the lawlessness at this border."

Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.

Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!

[Donald Trump] has done a financial disclosure, which has gone through the Office of Government Ethics. I think he's done that twice. That is his duty under the law. I hear no complaints about that.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.