Law Quotes - Page 88

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. This charge is preposterous and we ought to boldly say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have no dateline. These principles are derived from the nature of man, and from the truths that God has revealed about His creation. To suggest that the Conservative philosophy is out of date is akin to saying that the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments or Aristotle's Politics are out of date.

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain — there is nothing in the whole system of laws of physics that cannot be deduced unambiguously from epistemological considerations.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

Where love rules, laws are not needed.

In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.

The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.

Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

We chase gravity of the micro world, but after leaving its world we try to perfect the laws here that do not exist there.

Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.

Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts me.

I fight because international law recognises my right.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.