Laws Quotes

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson

Hope, Strength, Government

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

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

Reality, Far, Refer

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato

Good, Bad, Find

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein

Possible, Physics, Explain

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein

Feeling, Intuition, Order

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain

Control, Greater, Conduct

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. Lewis

Nature, Fact, Miracles

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand

Men, Power, Government

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Poverty, Universe

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin

Gentle, Seldom, Executed

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams

God, Power, Service

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

Order, Thieves, Prominent

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Men, State

Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Men, Obey

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle

Down, Written, Remain

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

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty, Secret, Natural

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn

Experience, Career, Star

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver

Strength, Sometimes, Natural

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, God, Human

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James Madison

Men, Cannot, Choice

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

Common, Consent, Trampled

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

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand

Men, Society, Free

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

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.
Mitt Romney

Love, Family, God

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
Steve Jobs

Car, Understand, Study

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
Ron Paul

Country, Fine, Crime

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

Before, Support, Virtue

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