Law Quotes - Page 6

• The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

  William James

  God, Science, Doe

  The Varieties of Religious Experience Lecture 20 (1902)

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• Justice delayed is justice denied.

  William E. Gladstone

  Justice, Fairness, Owners

  Speech in House of Commons, 16 Mar. 1868.

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• Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

  Immanuel Kant

  Science, Two, Heaven

  Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)

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• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Names, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

  John Adams

  Education, Wise, Learning

  John Adams (1841). “Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife”, p.284

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• There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

  Dorothy Height

  Rights, Enforcement, Contradiction

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• Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Judging, Police, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

  Inspirational, Equality, Availability

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• Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, House, Democracy

  'A Tract on the Popery Laws' (planned c.1765) ch. 3, pt. 1 in 'The Works' vol. 5 (1812)

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• Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Law And Justice, Bad Man

  "The works of Walter Savage Landor". Edited by J. Forster,

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• The law of England is a law of liberty .

  Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

  Liberty, England

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• In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

  Edmund Burke

  Giving, Community, Dresses

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.285, Penguin

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• Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

  John F. Kennedy

  Community, Shadow, Shells

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life.

  Mary Burnett Talbert

  Greatness, Rights, Enforcement

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• Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

  Ovid

  Plot, Murder

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• It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.

  Randal Cremer

  War, Fighting, Long

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• Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Science, Physicians, Superstitions

  "An Introduction to the History of Medicine". Book by Fielding Hudson Garrison, 1913.

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• Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.

  James A. Garfield

  Science, Government, Statistics

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1”, p.455, Best Books on

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• At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Lying, Government, Liberty

  "Burdeau v. McDowell, 256 U.S. 465, 477". Dissenting opinion, 1921.

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• It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.

  George Clooney

  Country, Play, Ideas

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• It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.

  Cindy Sheehan

  People, Break, Immoral

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Hands, Order

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

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• World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a produce of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world.

  William O. Douglas

  Order, People, Essentials

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