Laws Quotes

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.
Eric Liu

End, Movement, Habits

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
Clarence Darrow

Made, Serve, Clothes

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
Andrew Jackson

Power, Government, Whole

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
Rick Warren

Change, Good, America

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
Ted Nugent

America, Nation, Package

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories.
Elie Wiesel

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
Bob Ney

Society, Nothing, Nation

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
Publilius Syrus

May, Lives, Solitude

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
Max Planck

Future, Until, Exist

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
Edith Piaf

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra Streisand

Time, Wish, Necessary

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, Perfect, Sometimes

Laws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Habits, Effective

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Good, Power, Evil

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
Jack Kingston

Marriage, Nature, Perfect

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Emile M. Cioran

Politician, Petty, Paradise

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
Marco Rubio

War, Problems, Around

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.
Miriam Makeba

Change, Time, Long

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
Pat Robertson

Enjoy, Pretty, Nation

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
Herbert Read

Nature, Rather, State

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Anacharsis

Powerful, Through, Rich

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
Dan Quayle

Time, Smart, May

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
Xenophon

Government, Among, Wherever

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Nicolas Chamfort

Nature, Husband, Parents

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant

Bad, Effective, Secure

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
Pat Robertson

Life, Nature, God

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.
Simon Mainwaring

Good, Democracy, Living

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Frederic Bastiat

Life, Men, Made

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Tacitus

State, Corrupt, Multiplied

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Rights, Protect, Introduced

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