Inspirational Quotes
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Law Quotes
ConstitutionDebateImpactLawPolitics Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
HumorJudgmentJusticeLawLegal System A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ClarityJudiciaryJusticeLawPublic Trust On the whole, we think of our consumers - other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it's better to have it clearer than confusing.
DialogueEffortLawPromiseVote After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
DivinityJusticeLawSacrificeSalvation The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.
BeingLawOrderTao Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
EqualityLawObedience No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
LawMoralitySociety I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
FreedomIndividualityLawReligion The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
Law All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.
CitizenshipGovernanceHistoryLawUnity We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'
InspirationalLawNatureNecessity Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
JusticeLawOrderPrincipleTruth All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
ConflictCultureLawReligionSociety Islamic State practise a brand of Islamic law so strict that apparently Raqqa only has two Irish Pubs.
IntegrityJusticeLawMoralityRespect If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
AuthorityContemptLawLegislationObedience To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
GovernmentLawMaterial ConditionMoralityPolicy It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
LawPoliticsTechnology The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
EmpowermentFreedomLawResponsibility The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Capital PunishmentJusticeLawMorality Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.
LawPolicyProofPrudenceStrategy In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
AuthorityFreedomLawRegulationsRespect If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
ConstitutionDemocracyJudicial ReviewLawMajority Rule Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.