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Necessity has no law.
There is no law governing all things.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.
There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.
There's no law against stupid - I learned that a long time ago.
There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.
There's no law that says you have to be consistent in your preferences.
There's no law preventing a journalist from publishing whatever they want.
It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.
There is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government.
There's no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.
There's no law against asking strangers about their lives and feelings, although sometimes it really feels like there is.
If we don't have access to facts, we can't trust each other. Without trust, there's no law. Without law, there's no democracy.
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
In fact, there is no law that says election results must come the same day as the election. Historically, they used to take days.
The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.
There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.
You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
Journalists casually use terms like crossing the border illegally when referring to asylum seekers - when in fact there is no law that says they must use the ports of entry.
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
There's no law that says you have to do what your mentor suggests. And the sooner you learn how to say 'no' confidently, the easier it will be to manage these key relationships.
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
There is no law saying you have to die before your assets can be passed to loved ones. In fact, gifting earlier can be a lovely way to witness how your money helps your family thrive.
Unfortunately, the diplomatic destruction Netanyahu is causing will lead Israel to lose its Jewish majority and become a binational state. This unfortunate fact is something no law can hide.
It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.
Mexico scares me. There's no law, there's wild dogs and people driving their ATVs down the street. I like to know I can walk down the street and not be arrested for something dumb and have to pay to get my way out.
Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. I've nothing against using something to help your beauty - but do it in a good way, with intelligence.
In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'
What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.
The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.
There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.