Laws Quotes

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Good morals lead to good laws.

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

I am not a promoter of more laws, just better ones.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

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

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes.

The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

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

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.

Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.

In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

During war, the laws are silent.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends.

When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.

I don't order laws, I propose them.

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

Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.