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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.
Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.
It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.
Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.
Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.
Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.
The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.
I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.
Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.
Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.
Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.
Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.
National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.
Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.
Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.
The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.
Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.
To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
First, there is the law. It must be obeyed. But the law is the minimum. You must act ethically.
Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.
The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.
The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.
You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.
The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.
One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.