Quotes About Law

girls their mothers' nature share. So be not thou. For pity's sake Accept the word the monarch spake. Thy husband's will, O Queen, obey, And be the people's hope and stay, O, do not, urged by folly, draw The king to tread on duty's law.

A community like this is held together not by blood ties, but by laws under which all citizens are equal. The law corrects the flaws and the imperfections of individuals, limits conflict and competition, rewards the will to do and to achieve, encourages the strong, supports the weak. In a society like this the shame lies not in being humble and poor, but rather in doing nothing to improve one's condition.

Being a planetary citizen does not need space travel. It means being conscious that we are part of the universe and of the earth. The most fundamental law is to recognise that we share the planet with other beings, and that we have a duty to care for our common home.

Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough it looks good. Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all semblance of the original. Justice should be viewable under the microscope, not from a telescope. And for that it needs to be based not on law but on truth.

The famous law of punishment, "eye for eye, tooth for tooth" (Exodus 21:24), embodies the same principle in a specific juridical context. It was never intended as an excuse for personal vengeance but as a directive to judges making decisions regarding penalties in cases of injury (Exodus 21:22-25).

that more and more countries will make vaccination compulsory. This will happen quickly. Massachusetts, in the USA, passed a law whereby the police can break in and give you a flu shot or put you in jail if you refuse. In

By the power of faith every enduring work is accomplished. Faith in the Supreme, faith in the overruling Law; faith in your work, and in your power to accomplish that work—here is the rock upon which you must build if you would achieve, if you would stand and not fall."—Path to Prosperity

To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."

Hoy corresponde a los poderes públicos de los estados de derecho esforzarse en poner las condiciones que hagan posible para todo individuo conquistar la felicidad.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Ronald Reagan just signed the new tax law. But I think he was in Hollywood too long. He signed it, 'Best wishes, Ronald Reagan.'

It's a law of survival, isn't it?—to seek the best. I didn't come for your sake. I came for mine.

Sure, our legal system has its flaws, but it is the best legal system in the world.

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.