Quotes About Laws

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

Money does not go only to those who go to church, it goes to those who know and comply with the laws of money

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.