Your love was breaking the law.

I don’t think I’ve actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it’s the law.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.

We cannot judge of the fact, but the law upon the fact.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Harsh laws are at times better than no laws at all.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn’t slam him. I said, ‘Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn’t a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.

None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was ’93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command

For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is

American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil.

[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper.

There ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the state legislatures, without some constitutional mode of enforcing the observance of them? . . . This power must either be a direct negative on the state laws, or an authority in the federal courts, to over-rule such as might be in manifest contravention of the articles of union.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives, to be performed by Ministers of religion, elected by a majority of them, and these are to be paid out of the national taxes. Does this not involve the principle of a national establishment … ?

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

It is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law than to declare it void after it has passed.

The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from which they derive their authority and are Tyrants. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

Such verdicts are crimes against truth. The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. You go to Sunday-school to learn what.

You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can’t pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can’t pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

All was confusion and action, and every moment life and limb were in peril. There was imperative need to be constantly alert; for these dogs and men were not town dogs and men. They were savages, all of them, who knew no law but the law of club and fang.

The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below. Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available

What ‘eminent domain’ laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes

We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of law

I consider myself neither legally nor morally bound to obey the laws made by a body in which I have no representation.

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other

Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat – especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients – or their lack – and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

Whenever A attempts by law to impose his moral standards on B, A is most likely a scoundrel.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

The noisy, lumpy, hilarious breath runs through me like a great brightness. Magical, free laughter that spins me back to being a child; a hiccuping, chorus-rolling, crashing, howling, sobbing laughter, so unexpected, so strange, like finding that all together we can sing

To grow and still to grow, that is the law of life. What other law can there be?

The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays at golf. It’s almost a law.

am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it

A drug more harmful than the so-called heroic drugs has entered the national culture: easy money. The idea flourished that the law is the greatest obstacle to happiness, that learning to read and write is useless, that one lives better and safer as a criminal than as good people. In short: the state of social perversion typical of every larvae war.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

The law of nature cannot allow all human beings to think together. In breaking the two-hour barrier, I want to open minds to think that no human is limited.

The Charter was regarded as important because it assigned definite and practical remedies to temporary evils. There was very little that was abstract in its terms, less even than later generations supposed…. A King had been brought to order, not by a posse of reactionary feudalists, but the community of the land under baronial leadership; a tyrant had been subjected to the laws which hitherto it had been his private privilege to administer and to modify at will. A process had begun which was to end in putting the power of the Crown into the hands of the community at large.

Religion, to have any force upon men’s understandings,–indeed, to exist at all,–must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdist thing in the world,–an acknowledged cheat.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Manners are of more importance than laws. 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.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the Law of Nature and of Nations.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.

The Law is not the same at morning and at night.

LAW: Long-term price stability is possible only when the money supply is based upon the gold (or silver) supply without government interference.

This is very intriguing to think we should audit the Fed, but I discovered that probably if they audited the Fed, it would get a clean bill because it’s undoubtedly doing exactly what it’s supposed to do according to the law.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing. He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths

To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being, he has failed to realize his own life’s meaning

Life itself has no rules—that is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement

There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

A unjust law, is no law at all.

Who shall give a lover any law? Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.

The tiger — yes. The law of his nature is ferocity. The law of  his nature is the Law of God. He cannot disobey it.

No. No creature can be honorably required to go counter to
the law of his nature — the Law of God.

The heroic action of American law enforcement is the only force standing between us and total anarchy.

One’s god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny.

She never stumbles, she’s got no place to fall. She’s nobody’s child, the law can’t touch her at all.

To live outside the law you must be honest.

Although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence.

When you expect the best you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

A basic law the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces – and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.

Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws

The Law is Reason free from Passion

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.

Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn’t mean that they’re not educated. But we haven’t gone to law school and we’re not experts on policy. We’re just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.

Women will gain economic justice by proving themselves in all lines of endeavor, not by having laws passed for them

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage

There is hardly a political question in the United States that does not eventually turn into a judicial one

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible…Just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night

Curse on all laws but those which love has made

Order is heaven’s first law

The world is made of language, and if you know the laws that govern language, you can make of it what you will.

Necessity knows no law

To learn that the world, though governed by eternal laws, has yet managed to surprise us

Nature never breaks her own laws.

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.