Law Quotes - Page 27

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself. (Genevieve Behrend)

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.