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#2845 Napoleon I of France
The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
#4043 Francis Bacon
Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.
#4906 Joan of Arc
It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still; is not this lawful for all prisoners?
#5255 Mark Twain
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
#6042 Robert H. Jackson
The office of the lawyer, however poorly filled, is too delicate, personal and confidential to be occupied by a corporation.
#8227 H. L. Mencken
Judge — A law student who marks his own examination-papers.
#8229 H. L. Mencken
Lawyer — One who protects us against robbers by taking away the temptation.
#8329 Richard Nixon
As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. [No Jew] can be right on the criminal-law issue.
#9639 Theodore Roosevelt
The first essential of civilization is law. Anarchy is simply the handmaiden and forerunner of tyranny and despotism.
#11169 Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advancedis indistinguishable from .
#11328 Isaac Asimov
are entirely too disbelieving of . They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
#11913 Ozzy Osbourne
No we won't -- no we won't break the law Sharon.
#13482 T. S. Eliot
I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
#13960 Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"If you are not the heiress born, And I," said he, "the lawful heir, We two will wed to-morrow morn, And you shall still be Lady Clare".
#14264 Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
#14801 Edmund Burke
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
#14941 Edmund Burke
Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.
#15049 Ronald Reagan
My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
#15658 John F. Kennedy
We have a right to expect that the Negro community will be responsible, will uphold the law, but they have a right to expect that the law will be fair, that the Constitution will be color blind, assaid at the turn of the century.
#15907 Ludwig Wittgenstein
Though a state of affairs that would contravene the laws of physics can be represented by us spatially, one that would contravene the laws of geometry cannot. (3.0321)
#17473 William Wordsworth
And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
#18904 Thomas Gray
Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
#18905 Thomas Gray
One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his fav'rite tree: Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he.
#19476 Marcus Aurelius
And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything harm the state which does not harm law [order]; and of these things which are called misfortunes not one harms law. What then does not harm law does not harm either state or citizen.
#20459 George Orwell
Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows, and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon — so long as there is no answer to it — gives claws to the weak.
#20719 The Merchant of Venice
The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree.
#22969 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
#23049 Che Guevara
Our universities produced lawyers and doctors for the old social system, but did not create enough agricultural extension teachers, agronomists, chemists, or physicists. In fact, we do not even have mathematicians.
#23145 Che Guevara
Planning is one of the laws of socialism, and without it, socialism would not exist.
#23721 George Santayana
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
#26229 Jean Jacques Rousseau
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
#26460 Emil Cioran
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
#27413 Samuel Butler (novelist)
The true laws of God are the laws of our own well-being.
#27445 Samuel Butler (novelist)
The written law is binding, but the unwritten law is much more so. You may break the written law at a pinch and on the sly if you can, but the unwritten law — which often comprises the written — must not be broken. Not being written, it is not always easy to know what it is, but this has got to be done.
#27784 John Dryden
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
#28377 George Herbert
Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.
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