Law Quotes - page 5

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. (Thomas Jefferson)
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back... View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. View quote
Thomas Paine
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I'm proud of it. View quote
Paul Krugman
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. View quote
James Allen
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. View quote
George Sutherland
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Extreme law is often extreme injustice. View quote
Terence
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions. (John Rawls)
Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The courts must declare the sense of the law and if they should be disposed exercise will, instead of judgment, the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal. View quote
Lewis Black
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. View quote
Samuel Johnson
In mainstream economic theory, the firm and the market are, for the most part, assumed to exist and are not themselves the subject of investigation. One result has been that the crucial role of the law in determining the activities carried out by the firm and in the market has been largely ignored. View quote
Ronald Coase
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. View quote
Paul Ricœur
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler. View quote
Al Gore
Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent. View quote
William Penn
Justice is merely incidental to law and order. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime. (Rudy Giuliani)
Progress is The law of life man is not Man as yet. View quote
Robert Browning
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing. View quote
Robert Browning
Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. View quote
George Reisman
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. View quote
Marcus Garvey