Law Quotes

We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.

~ Donald Trump

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.

~ Learned Hand

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

~ Barbra Streisand

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

~ Aristotle

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

~ Thomas Aquinas

When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.

~ Cass Sunstein

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.

~ Robert Ballard

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

~ Naoto Kan

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

~ Atifete Jahjaga

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

~ Julius Caesar

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

~ Jeremy Bentham

What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?

~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

~ Benazir Bhutto

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

~ William Pitt

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The law has no power over heroes.

~ Charlotte Lennox

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

~ James F. Cooper

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

~ James F. Cooper

To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.

~ William Tyndale

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

~ Tony Blair

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

~ Chief Joseph

As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress.

~ Charles B. Rangel

I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

~ Gerard Butler

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

~ Mark Twain

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.

~ William Blackstone

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.

~ Mary Manin Morrissey

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

~ Jim Elliot

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

~ Matt Blunt

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

~ George Reisman

In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.

~ Benjamin N. Cardozo

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

~ Henry James Sumner Maine

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

~ William Dunbar

The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.

~ Darryl Pinckney

On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.

~ Cristina Saralegui

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.

~ Glenn Greenwald

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

~ Aristotle

It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.

~ Joseph Prince

Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.

~ Amy Klobuchar