Law Quotes - Page 308

Let us kill all lawyers

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.

Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will.

"Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.

When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.

The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.

You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.

And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.

Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct.

In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.