Laws Quotes

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West

Long, Few, Break

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

Before, Support, Virtue

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas A. Edison

Everything, Fact, Behind

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin

Nature, Great, Poor

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke

Bad, Worst, Tyranny

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Voltaire

Knows, Tyrant, Sovereign

The more laws, the less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus

State, Corrupt, Numerous

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder

Good, Passion, Battle

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Good, Cannot, State

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.
Clint Eastwood

Love, Time, Bad

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nature, Human, Made

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac

Through, Big, Pass

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William James

God, Business, Science

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
Marquis de Sade

Greatest, Country, Dangerous

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes

Few, State, Governed

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

Law, Support, Militia

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.
Luke Scott

Country, Gun, Point

A government of laws, and not of men.
John Adams

Men, Government

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Karl Marx

Change, Nature, Different

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Thomas Sowell

Strong, Control, Gun

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce

Single, Universe, Ask

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin

Special, Wish, Whole

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

Nature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Her, Breaks

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

Law, Decency, Observed

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Abigail Adams

Care, Attention, Ourselves

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

May, Sense, Liberal

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Andrew Jackson

Love, Great, Men

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