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Quotes About Law

They say if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Well, those are precisely the people who need them!
~ George Carlin
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
~ William McIlvanney
He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.What?' Ronald said.I didn't say anything.'You're breathing heavy.
~ Jennifer Crusie, Faking It
The legal profession is notorious for complicating the simples of things.
~ Sarah M. Eden
What exactly does the I in FBI stand for?" ~Maggie Mae Castro
~ Beth Yarnall, Wake Up Maggie
I'm going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is my giving a high five.' Kai's smiled brightened. 'That's genius. Me too.
~ Marissa Meyer, Winter
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
~ H.G. Wells
The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.
~ Massad Ayoob
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
~ William Golding
There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.
~ W. A. Criswell
Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.
~ Thomas Paine
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
~ Thomas More
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.
~ Helen Keller
If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
~ Rush Limbaugh
we attract what is happening in our lives
~ Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
A fig for those by law protected!Liberty's a glorious feast!Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest!
~ Robert Burns
An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.
~ Jean Vanier
Just because something is legal doesn't always make it right.
~ Raymond C. Nolan
The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction.
~ Patrick Hamilton
without prophecy, without divine revelation or vision, people will cast off all restraint. They will run wild because they have no guidance—no vision. The Word of God—His law—provides vision and guidance for living, and those who follow it are blessed. All people need a vision to sustain them in life.
~ James W. Goll
Am I bad?" He puffed angrily on his pipe. "Why does the law create such absurdities?" He snorted. "The law. The law is an ass. Someone famous said that, once. Dickens, I think." He looked up to Goodrich. "And it is. It doesn't respond anymore. It's a straitjacket. What kind of coercion is it when your alternatives are to kill or to go to jail?
~ James Webb