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Law Quotes


"A law is not a law without coercion behind it."

Full 'James Garfield' Quote   Source: James Garfield
"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let..."

Full 'Charles Lamb' Quote   Source: Charles Lamb
"criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in..."

Full 'J Edgar Hoover' Quote   Source: J Edgar Hoover
"through your will a be general natural law...."

Full 'Immanuel Kant' Quote   Source: Immanuel Kant
"All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species."

Full 'John Gardner' Quote   Source: John Gardner
"would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . ...."

Full 'Germaine Greer' Quote   Source: Germaine Greer
"we fight for our freedom, then we make laws to take it away."

Full 'Alfred E Newman' Quote   Source: Alfred E Newman
"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual,..."

Full 'Andrew Carnegie' Quote   Source: Andrew Carnegie
"handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail -- period...."

Full 'Carl Rowan' Quote   Source: Carl Rowan
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;..."

Full 'Albert Einstein' Quote   Source: Albert Einstein
"Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the"

Full 'Jim Rohn' Quote   Source: Jim Rohn
"whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilisation is..."

Full 'Ayn Rand' Quote   Source: Ayn Rand
"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out"

Full 'Thomas Hardy' Quote   Source: Thomas Hardy
"occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them...."

Full 'Ivan Pavlov' Quote   Source: Ivan Pavlov
"will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or..."

Full 'Abigail Adams' Quote   Source: Abigail Adams
"dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws...."

Full 'Richard Burton' Quote   Source: Richard Burton
"Either the law exists, or it does not."

Full 'Andre Norton' Quote   Source: Andre Norton
"is the rule of contemporary American law."

Full 'Abbie Hoffman' Quote   Source: Abbie Hoffman
"precious gift of life must be protected in law and nurtured in love."

Full 'John Ashcroft' Quote   Source: John Ashcroft
"Good men must not obey the laws too well... All human things are subject to"

Full 'Robert Southey' Quote   Source: Robert Southey
"Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is"

Full 'Sir William Davenant' Quote   Source: Sir William Davenant
"believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade -- or..."

Full 'Belva Lockwood' Quote   Source: Belva Lockwood
"secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent..."

Full 'Ulysses S Grant' Quote   Source: Ulysses S Grant
"know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines..."

Full 'Belva Lockwood' Quote   Source: Belva Lockwood
"is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry,..."

Full 'Nikos Kazantzakis' Quote   Source: Nikos Kazantzakis
"to help, but until George W. Bush outlaws helping your fellow man, I have..."

Full 'Michael Moore' Quote   Source: Michael Moore
"If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette."

Full 'Judith Martin' Quote   Source: Judith Martin
"only by the results that challenge the laws of probabilities, then the..."

Full 'Judith Hayes' Quote   Source: Judith Hayes
"If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many"

Full 'Calvin Trillin' Quote   Source: Calvin Trillin
"impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the..."

Full 'Belva Lockwood' Quote   Source: Belva Lockwood
"time and you've just proven a natural law...."

Full 'Grace Hopper' Quote   Source: Grace Hopper
"If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end."

Full 'Bugs Baer' Quote   Source: Bugs Baer
"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe"

Full 'Julius Caesar' Quote   Source: Julius Caesar
"legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to"

Full 'Ayatollah Khomeini' Quote   Source: Ayatollah Khomeini
"tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

Full 'Doris Lessing' Quote   Source: Doris Lessing
"worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are..."

Full 'Douglas Jerrold' Quote   Source: Douglas Jerrold
"It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins."

Full 'Bugs Baer' Quote   Source: Bugs Baer
"should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape...."

Full 'Thomas Jefferson' Quote   Source: Thomas Jefferson
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him..."

Full 'Martin Luther King' Quote   Source: Martin Luther King
"might only be an abstract concept, called law, which is preventing a large..."

Full 'Eli Khamarov' Quote   Source: Eli Khamarov
"that progress, not repetition, is the law of life...."

Full 'Barbara Ward' Quote   Source: Barbara Ward
"Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should..."

Full 'Warren E. Burger' Quote   Source: Warren E. Burger
"Justice is incidental to law and order."

Full 'J Edgar Hoover' Quote   Source: J Edgar Hoover
"Law of the Hydrodynamics: When the body is immersed in water, the telephone"

Full 'Camille Flammarion' Quote   Source: Camille Flammarion
"Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them."

Full 'Suzanne Lafollette' Quote   Source: Suzanne Lafollette
"Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made."

Full 'Otto Von Bismarck' Quote   Source: Otto Von Bismarck
"he recognized that he was subject to law."

Full 'Will Durant' Quote   Source: Will Durant
"My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is"

Full 'Harriet Ann Jacobs' Quote   Source: Harriet Ann Jacobs
"but they turned sixty, and that's the law...."

Full 'Seinfeld' Quote   Source: Seinfeld
"Necessity has no law."

Full 'Oliver Cromwell' Quote   Source: Oliver Cromwell
"means he's even worse than my brother-in-law...."

Full 'Karl A. Menninger' Quote   Source: Karl A. Menninger
"Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside"

Full 'Paul Newman' Quote   Source: Paul Newman
"Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black."

Full 'Paul Newman' Quote   Source: Paul Newman
"No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the"

Full 'J Edgar Hoover' Quote   Source: J Edgar Hoover
"intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law."

Full 'Robert Heinlein' Quote   Source: Robert Heinlein
"been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law."

Full 'Grover Cleveland' Quote   Source: Grover Cleveland
"No man's error becomes his own law; nor obliges him to persist in it."

Full 'Thomas Hobbes' Quote   Source: Thomas Hobbes
"change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table..."

Full 'John Lord Acton' Quote   Source: John Lord Acton
"Order is heav'ns first law."

Full 'Alexander Pope' Quote   Source: Alexander Pope
"rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of..."

Full 'John Marshall Harlan' Quote   Source: John Marshall Harlan
"the result of knowledge and belief. No law will make a citizen a patriot...."

Full 'Jesse Ventura' Quote   Source: Jesse Ventura
"Physical Laws should have Mathematical Beauty."

Full 'Paul Dirac' Quote   Source: Paul Dirac
"rather be called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of..."

Full 'David Ricardo' Quote   Source: David Ricardo
"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion."

Full 'William Blake' Quote   Source: William Blake
"man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out...."

Full 'Francis Bacon' Quote   Source: Francis Bacon
"Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal."

Full 'Friedrich Engels' Quote   Source: Friedrich Engels
"creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his..."

Full 'Freda Adler' Quote   Source: Freda Adler
"The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the..."

Full 'Edgar Quinet' Quote   Source: Edgar Quinet
"that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a..."

Full 'Albert Ellis' Quote   Source: Albert Ellis
"The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization..."

Full 'William Gilmore Simms' Quote   Source: William Gilmore Simms
"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and..."

Full 'Bill Cosby' Quote   Source: Bill Cosby
"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of"

Full 'Stokely Carmichael' Quote   Source: Stokely Carmichael
"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few..."

Full 'Alfred Adler' Quote   Source: Alfred Adler
"equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers...."

Full 'Susan B Anthony' Quote   Source: Susan B Anthony
"enter the country illegally violate the law." —George W. Bush, Tucson,"

Full 'Bush' Quote   Source: Bush
"starry heavens above me and the moral law within me...."

Full 'Immanuel Kant' Quote   Source: Immanuel Kant
"pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order...."

Full 'Spiro Agnew' Quote   Source: Spiro Agnew
"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the..."

Full 'Jean Giraudoux' Quote   Source: Jean Giraudoux
"each other our follies it is the first law of nature...."

Full 'Voltaire' Quote   Source: Voltaire
"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to"

Full 'Emmeline Pankhurst' Quote   Source: Emmeline Pankhurst
"no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up..."

Full 'Max Planck' Quote   Source: Max Planck
"We passed a major national law to clean up hazardous dump sites. And we had..."

Full 'Al Gore' Quote   Source: Al Gore
"on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own..."

Full 'Sean O'casey' Quote   Source: Sean O'casey
"marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is..."

Full 'Shana Alexander' Quote   Source: Shana Alexander
"side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law...."

Full 'Al Gore' Quote   Source: Al Gore
"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And..."

Full 'Robert Kennedy' Quote   Source: Robert Kennedy
"throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its"

Full 'Freda Adler' Quote   Source: Freda Adler
"there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in..."

Full 'Louis Nizer' Quote   Source: Louis Nizer