Quotes About Law

... law is a substitute for love.

The law of heaven is love.

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

In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.

It is the law of love that rules mankind.

And now the state was about to bring the law back, proving conclusively that the danger for Tennesseans isn't so much that they may be descended from apes as overtaken by them.

By the late eighteenth century Britain's statute books were plump with capital offences; you could be hanged for any of 200 acts, including, notably, 'impersonating an Egyptian'.

Sumptuary laws, as they were known, laid down precisely, if preposterously, who could wear what.

There is no law that requires the universe to fill itself with small particles of matter or to produce light and gravity and the other properties on which our existence hinges.

Until 1604 the age of consent was twelve for a girl, fourteen for a boy.

All Australians are required by law to vote in federal elections, including residents of the Northern Territory.

In 1649 the laws were tightened even further—to the extent that swearing at a parent became punishable by death.

Kriegsgefangenenentschädigungsgesetz (a law pertaining to war reparations)

God, I sound like an ass. Worse yet, I sound like a lawyer.

Those skills [to test the veracity of news produced], however, can be identified. If we look at those who have been in the business of empiricism - people in journalism, law, intelligence, science, medicine, and elsewhere - we will see a set of common concepts and skills that have developed over generations.

You can get in just as much trouble by being dumb and innocent as you can by breaking the law.

The prophets clearly said that Israel would always be beloved of God and that the law would be everlasting, and they also said that none would understand their meaning, but that it was veiled. How highly then should we esteem those who break the cipher for us and teach us to understand the hidden meaning

quod quum naturae et legi impossibile est, possibile facit, immo et præstat gratia Dei per Christum.

Shortly after he became a judge in 1967, he began to preside over cases involving the racial integration of Virginia's secondary and elementary schools. He correctly read the law as requiring integration without unnecessary delay. Accordingly, he ordered mass bussing and other measures to move ahead on ending segregation. As a result, he became a hated man by a large number of Virginia dimwits who liked their white-only schools just fine.

Cadets would swear an oath—the very first law the First Congress enacted, an indication of its importance to the young country—to defend the Constitution, not any party or individual.

The individual income tax rates were pegged at 10, 12, 22, 24, 32, 35 and the top rate, 37 percent. The drop from 39.6 percent was standard Republican tax cutting. In the end, the law would add an estimated $1.5 trillion to the annual deficit over 10 years.

The FBI conducts criminal investigations in addition to gathering intelligence.

Smith liked to think of Donald Trump as a hundred-year flood in American democracy. But he told colleagues there was nothing Congress could put into law to protect the country if a lunatic wound up in the White House. The war-making power was ceded to the president as commander in chief. The only power Congress had, in a practical sense, was to cut off the money. He believed the system for controlling the use of nuclear weapons was vulnerable.

Like a flash of lightning Arthur Schopenhauer appeared to me and said, The highest law is love, the love that is compassion