Law Quotes - Page 18

• Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

  Aaron Burr

  Quoted in James Parton, Life and Times of Aaron Burr, 7th ed. (1858)

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• Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Thrive, Crap

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• What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where the Second Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Order, Second Amendment, Louisiana

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• We were told, no, you don't do. There was this high standard of morals and a sense of responsibility. That didn't mean that everybody stuck to those laws, but we were cognizant of the importance of trying to live up to that code.

  David C. Driskell

  Mean, Responsibility, Trying

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.

  Daniel Pipes

  Country, Wish, Asia

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• Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Hungry, No Respect

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.13, Ravenio Books

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• God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist

  Brigham Young

  World, Economy, Made

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• The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Courage, Lying

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• I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, .. But let me say if someone was nominated for attorney general who was vehemently pro choice -- who in his or her career spent decades trying to find ways to expand the law abortion at nine months would be perfectly legal -- wouldn't you be more upset and raise more of a voice than against a nominee who was simply pro-choice?.

  Charles Schumer

  Careers, Voice, Choices

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• The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Wall, Pain

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• Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

  Chris Matthews

  Order, Unity, Important

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• When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws of God for all of life, but especially for the life of dominion man, the man redeemed by grace through faith in the one true Dominion Man, Jesus Christ.

  Gary North

  Jesus, Men, Grace

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• Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts or otherwise invade their personal lives, with no oversight or accountability. Law-abiding Americans also deserve to know that when law enforcement can show an impartial judge clear evidence of criminal activity or a threat to national security, swift and decisive action will be taken to protect the public. That is the balance we must achieve.

  Ralph Neas

  Taken, Phones, Government

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• We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Athlete, Role Models, Roles

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• Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the] torture and the burning of heretics — Muslims in particular. Now, of course, I am not accusing the Attorney General of pulling out anyone's fingernails or burning people at the stake (at least I don't know of any such cases). But one does get the sense these days that the old Spaniard's spirit is comfortably at home in Ashcroft's Department of Justice.

  Walter Cronkite

  Home, People, Justice

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• I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Order, Anarchy, Revolution

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• Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Political, Politics, Masters

  Benvenuto Cellini (2014). “The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini”, p.279, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

  St. Jerome

  Mother, Men, Funeral

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• HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in spirit.
  LOYAL. This means that she is true to her country, to the city or village where she is a citizen, to her family, her church, her school, and those for whom she may work or who may work for her.
  HELPFUL. The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker. This is the spirit that makes the older Scout into a fine, useful, dependable woman.

  Juliette Gordon Low

  Girl, Country, Mean

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• Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Remember, Please

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1958). “Mar. 1953-Aug. 1957”

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• The time has been in Israel under the law of God, the celestial law, or that which pertains to the celestial law, for it is one of the laws of that kingdom where our Father dwells, that if a man was found guilty of adultery, he must have his blood shed, and that is near at hand. But now I say, in the name of the Lord, that if this people will sin no more, but faithfully live their religion, their sins will be forgiven them without taking life

  Brigham Young

  Father, Men, Blood

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Known

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• Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Years, Funny Things

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• There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hard Work, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.69, Chartwell

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• Religious faith may very well be considered a science, for it responds invariably to certain formulae. Perform the technique of faith according to the laws which have been proved workable in human experience and you will always get a result of power.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Religious, May, Technique

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