Quotes About Law

The law doesn't always know what it's doing,' he adds for good measure. 'Humans have a far greater instinct for what's right in life than lawyers do.

The great thing about legal training is it really teaches you to lie.

Full equity partnership is the highest pinnacle, way above the first rung of partnership. It's the most prestigious job in law. I never, ever, ever expected that.

I only ask to live, with pure faith keeping In word and deed that Law which leaps the sky, Made of no mortal mould, undimmed, unsleeping Whose living godhead does not age or die.

Shall we not perish wretchedest of all, If in defiance of the law we cross A monarch's will?—weak women, think of that, Not framed by nature to contend with men. Remember

CHORUS: What canst thou plead? OEDIPUS: A plea of justice. CHORUS: How? OEDIPUS: I slew who else would me have slain; I slew without intent, A wretch, but innocent In the law's eye, I stand, without a stain.

Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.

I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought to continue to have good adoption law as an alternative to abortion.

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

The old law permitted abortion to save one life when two would otherwise die. The new law permits abortion to take one life when two would otherwise live.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs.

Change is the only universal law.

The Great law is God's commandment.

Justice is blind, but judges have eyes.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.

God so commanded, and left that commandSole daughter of his voice; the rest, we liveLaw to ourselves, our reason is our law.

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true sourceOf human offspring.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Another lawful use of the law is, to consult it as a rule and pattern by which to regulate our spirit and conversation. The grace of God, received by faith, will dispose us to obedience in general, but through remaining darkness and ignorance we are much at a loss as to particulars. We are therefore sent to the law, that we may learn how to walk worthy of God, who has called us to his kingdom and glory; and every precept has its proper place and use.

When asked to identify what the law is about, Jesus' response was simply "Love God, love people." He named a fundamentally different way of identifying who are the children of God: "Do they love God, and do they love the people who mean so much to him?