Law Quotes

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain

God, Find, Impossible

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Change, Future

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Time, Society, Broken

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan

Religion, God, Freedom

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

Life, Music, Mind

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein

Government, Respect, Nothing

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Time, Old, Everybody

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, True, Important

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X

Respect, Someone, Him

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice, Become, Purpose

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

Respect, Destroy, Ten

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Others, Around

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Bad, Enforce

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey

Nature, Great, God

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Rights, Though

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle

Best, Justice, Worst

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Government, Another

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson

Person, Guilty, Dangerous

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Justice, Surrender

Taste cannot be controlled by law.
Thomas Jefferson

Cannot, Taste, Controlled

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi

Violence, Unjust, Species

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma Gandhi

Place, Conscience, Matters

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mahatma Gandhi

Sacrifice, Effective, Uniform

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Change, Time

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
William Shakespeare

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Himself, Order

The law is reason, free from passion.
Aristotle

Passion, Free, Reason

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