Quotes About Law

House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.

I don't hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Law and justice are not always the same.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

Whenever equality rights and religious rights collide, equality rights trump.

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.

The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.

The law operates by faith. If you believe, no effort is necessary to see the fulfillment of your every desire.

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector