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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws.
It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.
We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.
I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.
Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.
We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.
What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.
Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.
No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.
Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.
They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.
It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
Congress voted for tougher laws on corporations. So now when a corporation buys a senator, they need a receipt.
Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]
In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.
In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.