Quotes About Law

Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.

To eat the forbidden is to disobey the law of God

So highly revered was commingle, that the Jews called him "the beauty of the Law".

The holy servants were separated, for the sake of Law of God.

Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering."Luke 11:52

God's great Law is spiritual.

It is fatal to forget the Law's of God.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.

Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

Either the law exists, or it does not.

The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.