Law Quotes - Page 307

Ethics are more important than laws.

I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law

Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

While combat efficiency is a primary function of Shaolin Kung Fu, a more immediate and useful benefit in our law-abiding society is attaining radiant health and vitality.

I can't think of many other laws we might need. For now, though, we'll be talking to German Muslims over issues of coexistence.

It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.

To discover the laws of operative power in material productions, whether formed by man or brought into being by Nature herself, is the work of a science, and is indeed what we more especially term Science.

I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.

I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal.

Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.