Law Quotes

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes, Injustice, Becomes

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
John Lennon

Problem, Possession

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Mahatma Gandhi

Living, Universe, Lives

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle

Fear, Philosophy, Others

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy

Law Quote

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant

Two, Moral, Within

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
Ronald Reagan

Good, Live, Someone

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David Thoreau

Respect, Desirable, Cultivate

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

Nature, Humanity, Tolerance

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Sympathy, Deep

To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Bob Dylan

Live, Honest, Outside

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson

Food, Said, Sea

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Others, Artist

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein

Religion, Power, Political

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Albert Camus

Nature, Same, Cannot

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore Roosevelt

Best, Bad, Enough

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken

Judge, Student, Papers

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

Death, Trying, Why

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt

Asked, Favor, Obedience

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
Barack Obama

Health, Care, After

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

Nature, Full, Weakness

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Plato

Ordinance, Mightier

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert Kennedy

Society, True, Community

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy

Men, Freedom, Loser

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul II

Women, Men, Freedom

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Immanuel Kant

Others, Guilty, Rights

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand

Society, Moral, Means

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Hillary Clinton

Trust, Business, Finance

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