Laws Quotes

The entire legal system was built upon the assumption that people would have adequate representation. When they don't, the system fails, and the laws don't matter.

Shari Redstone

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I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

Belva Lockwood

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But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.

Thomas Day

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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Walt Whitman

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The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Richard Le Gallienne

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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.

Samuel Freeman Miller

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We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.

Richard Cordray

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The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.

Joe Moore

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I don't want to get fat.

Sammy Sosa

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What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

Marion Barry

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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

John Adams

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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

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More climate-friendly, coordinated laws, policies, and incentives are needed.

Patricia Espinosa

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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

Montesquieu

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All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

John Coltrane

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.

Levi Woodbury

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The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.

John O. Brennan

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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

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I fully intend in all cases and in all ways at all times to fully comply with all laws. I would expect the same of any employee or member of DHS.

Kirstjen Nielsen

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The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.

Robert Reich

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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

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I want to do what I can to make the law make sense to citizens and businesses alike. I want the laws to assist them in worthwhile endeavors, not to stand as bureaucratic obstacles.

Janet Reno

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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

Matt Taibbi

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