Quotes About Law

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

Obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.

No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'