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Quotes About Laws

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
~ C.S. Lewis, Miracles
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
~ Charles Darwin
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The laws of the Universe are responding to me.
~ Esther Hicks
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
~ Edmund Burke
Trust your instincts above all else. They are byproducts of natural laws and do not sway to your whims, worries and wonders.
~ Glenn A. Maltais
Physics is all about order and design. About laws that govern the forces making up our universe. We didn't create them. We just discovered them and learned how to use them. It is now my humble opinion that when you have laws, you have a lawgiver. When you have overwhelming evidence of intelligent design, you have an intelligent designer. Unless such a conclusion gets in the way of your personal autonomy and career.
~ Jan David Hettinga
But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.
~ Janet Napolitano
We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.
~ Janine M. Benyus
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
~ Jared Diamond
It's okay to applaud the laws of physics.
~ Jared Ficklin
If the laws of division were correct, a Motel 3 would be half as good as Motel 6. And right they were. It resembled a two-story slab of pancake-colored timeshares, the paint looking like it hadn't received a second coat since before Sherwin married Williams.
~ Jason Pinter
Laws are commanded to hold their tongues amongst arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.
~ Edmund Burke
The Church, like every body corporate, may alter her laws without changing her identity.
~ Edmund Burke
Corporate cunning has developed faster than the laws of nation and state," he remarked to the reporter Lindsay Denison. "Sooner or later, unless there is a readjustment, there will come a riotous, wicked, murderous day of atonement.
~ Edmund Morris
The flood became an embarrassment for Roosevelt. Did all these men imagine they were buying him? "Corporate cunning has developed faster than the laws of nation and state," he remarked to the reporter Lindsay Denison. "Sooner or later, unless there is a readjustment, there will come a riotous, wicked, murderous day of atonement.
~ Edmund Morris
The flood became an embarrassment for Roosevelt. Did all these men imagine they were buying him? "Corporate cunning has developed faster than the laws of nation and state
~ Edmund Morris
The lawyers and historians concurred in teaching, that the Imperial authority was held, not by the delegated commission, but by the irrevocable resignation of the senate; that the emperor was freed from the restraint of civil laws, could command by his arbitrary will the lives and fortunes of his subjects, and might dispose of the empire as of his private patrimony. [
~ Edward Gibbon
The answer to Russia's problems lies here, in Russia. . . . The church is the key. If Russia's guiding force is not religion, then her people will be listless. We can have Western laws, independent judges, perhaps even parliaments -- but only if they grow gradually out of a spiritual renewal. That has to come first.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
~ Albert Einstein
Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.
~ Albert Einstein
Nevertheless there was an anomaly here. We were all supposed to respect our government and its laws, yet by all accounts those who were charged with the conduct of government and the making of its laws were most dreadful swine; indeed, the very conditions of their tenure precluded their being anything else.
~ Albert Jay Nock
There is a feeble minority called conservationists, who are indignant about something. They are beginning to realize that their task involves the reorganization of society, rather than the passage of some fish and game laws.
~ Aldo Leopold