Quotes About Law

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Love is the law, love under will.

Había llegado a pedir - lo cual aprobaba el joven- que la guillotina se instalara en la misma sala de los tribunales, para que no se perdiera tiempo entre la sentencia y la ejecución.

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

Political bargaining and political entrepreneurship can be seen naked, stripped of the flattering wardrobe of democracy, rule of law and state building.

por muy valioso que fuera, nadie está por encima de la ley.

Now love was to be the outstanding royal law, and free grace was to antiquate Sinaitic ordinances. And why now? In both cases, because Jesus was about to die. His death would be the seal of the New Testament, and it would exemplify and ratify the new commandment

Think it over and see if it is not the law itself, the government which really creates crime by compelling people to live in conditions that make them bad. See how law and government uphold and protect the biggest crime of all, the mother of all crimes, the capitalistic wage system, and then proceeds to punish the poor criminal.

We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong.... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things

A sacred respect for the Constitutional Law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

In addition to the remarks I have made upon the subject in another place, I shall only observe that as it is a plain dictate of common-sense, so it is also an established doctrine of political law, that "States neither lose any of their rights, nor are discharged from any of their obligations, by a change in the form of their civil government.

No man shall be the avenger of his own wrongs, especially by a deed alike interdicted by the laws of God and man.

The important distinction so well understood in America, between a Constitution established by the people and unalterable by the government, and a law established by the government and alterable by the government, seems to have been little understood and less observed in any other country.

This word is composed of jus and dictio, juris dictio or a speaking and pronouncing of the law.

It seems to be law inflexible and inexorable that he who will not risk cannot win. JOHN PAUL JONES

there is very little connection between law and justice.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential Awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law: While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-` 'Nothing is sacred now but Villainy' - Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I

Order is heaven's first law.

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

There is more law in a policeman's nightstick than in a decision of the Supreme Court.

But deep down I always knew there is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.

In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country's top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn't have a law school