Law Quotes

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

Society, Moral, Means

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie

Best, Hard, May

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

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Through, Become

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Time, Men, Precious

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen

Character, Destiny, Act

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher

Society, Liberty, Effort

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
H. L. Mencken

Judge, Student, Marks

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Pablo Picasso

Thinks, Inexorable

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Thomas Paine

Religion, Original, Religions

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

Equality, Sleep, Rich

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis

Government, Become, Whole

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
John Adams

Support, Laws, Militia

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.
Bill Maher

Gay, Kids, Cake

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
Muhammad Iqbal

Life, Best, History

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.
Hillary Clinton

School, End, Long

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius Caesar

Power, Break, Seize

Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Modesty, Forbids

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Power, Freedom, Far

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke

Power, Hope, Nothing

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

May, Shame, Prohibit

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Show, Means

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Truth, Impulse

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Enough, Police, Jails

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Charles de Montesquieu

Justice, Name, Tyranny

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke

Change, Nature, Great

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Aleister Crowley

Whole, Shall, Thou

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
Andy Rooney

Men, Though, Equal

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon

Nature, Revenge, Justice

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

Laws, Decency, Observed

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