Law Quotes

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
Caroline Kennedy

Political, Democracy, Decisions

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Time, Long, Country

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.
Peter Stone

Two, Become, Three

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
Jerry Seinfeld

Parents, Move, Florida

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
Ben Stein

Forget, Done, Enough

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
Andrew Jackson

Country, Door, Once

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
Franz Kafka

Time, Fact, Last

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.
Christopher Hitchens

Country, Cannot, Once

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Men, Older, Grow

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
James A. Garfield

Service, Until, Civil

I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed.
Bill Maher

Stars, President, Star

Necessity has no law.
Oliver Cromwell

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.
John Major

Family, Time, Respect

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
Robert Byrne

Protect, Electrical, Burn

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius

Love, Give, Lovers

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian

Conscience, Follow, Says

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Stephen Leacock

Sunday, Game, May

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
Pat Robertson

Life, Nature, Person

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.
Demetri Martin

School, Three, Found

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.
Demetri Martin

School, High, Student

For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'
Demetri Martin

God, Home, School

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.
Demetri Martin

Work, Good, School

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.
William Petersen

Someone, Against, Sure

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
Julian Assange

Good, Keep, Often

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Max Beerbohm

Nature, Seems, Unless

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Jeremy Bentham

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham

Ignorance, Lawyers, Punished

Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.
Chris Rock

Movies, Bad, Said

People must help one another; it is nature's law.
Jean de La Fontaine

Nature, Help, Another

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
Paul Newman

Down, Put, Useless

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