Quotes About Laws

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration.

The greatest way to ensure stability in our laws is to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to participate in some way in the passage.

Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

The U.S. is the gold standard for clean air and clean water. We reached that point through private sector innovation and cooperation between Washington and the states to implement our nation's environmental laws.

I don't think the Internet should be immune to the standing laws of countries.

Standing here in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I am confirmed I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great country.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.