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Quotes About Law

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
~ Harold S. Geneen
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
~ Richard Perle
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.
~ Unknown
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
~ Franklin P Jones
There are two things that are without law, God and necessity.
~ Unknown
Apparently Fitzgerald hoped to soften the harshness of her reply when he asked her: "Have you killed anybody to get someone out of jail?" With a strange little smile, Cathy turned her head and, looking directly at the jury, replied: "Not yet.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution is not to convict, but to see that justice is done…
~ Vincent Bugliosi
A murder trial is not a Sunday-afternoon tea party.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
Now, the Bible says that if there is no moral law, there would be no sin. Therefore, sin is a transgression of the moral law.
~ Unknown
Romans 8:7 says, "The sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.
~ Unknown
The sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so" (Romans 8:7). If
~ Unknown
Scripture defines sin as a transgression of God's law, and it is God's law that defines right and wrong. Romans 3:20 says, "Through the law we become conscious of sin," and John writes, "In fact, sin is lawlessness" (1 John 3:4). To break God's command is to do wrong, that is, to sin.
~ Unknown
You cannot rally against abortion, and then support a law that grants unbiblical rights to homosexuals, regardless of whether you think it is the American thing to do. God will not hold you guiltless just because you are dealing with matters of the state. He might just "separate" you from the church altogether and send you to hell. There you can sort out your politics.
~ Unknown
My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.
~ Vinny Guadagnino
Others, I take it, will work better with breathing bronze and draw living faces from marble; others will plead at law with greater eloquence, or measure the pathways of the sky, or forecast the rising stars. Be it your concern, Roman, to rule the nations under law (this is your proper skill) and establish the way of peace; to spare the conquered and put down the mighty from their seat.
~ Virgil
Jesus suffered because he named the cause of suffering, the law that kills
~ Unknown
Where there are laws, innocence need not tremble.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
Uniformity is the rigorous law of nature; therefore, what happened once can happen always.
~ Vivekananda
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws
~ Voltaire
Compared to children raised in an intact, married family, children raised in single-parent or cohabiting homes are significantly more likely to suffer psychological problems such as depression, to get into trouble with the law, to become pregnant as teenagers, and to drop out of high school.75
~ Unknown
Unit Eight-Kilo-Six, what's your twenty?" the radio squawked. "Eight-Kilo-Six, we are proceeding up Amalfi.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
~ W. Clement Stone
Universal laws always follow a pattern. Everything that moves or grows has a cycle and trend.
~ W. Clement Stone