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People say law but they mean wealth.
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?
Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?
The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.
Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.
...we do not yet know all the basic laws: there is an expanding frontier of ignorance
Law is all that separates us from barbarism and the howling within; it is a necessary leash on our darker natures.
In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature, as to his disillusion many a lawgiver has discovered.
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
Either the law exists, or it does not.
The law is like rope ... useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.
The Law and the Lawgiver are one.
Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.
Law..is too important to be left to the lawyers.
The law is what powerful men say it shall be.
Law is twofold
natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.
A bad law is no law.
The law is whatever people determine it to be.
I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law.
The laws receive their force and authority from an oath of fidelity, either tacit or expressed, which living subjects have sworn to their sovereign, in order to restrain the intestine fermentation of the private interest of individuals.
What is crucial is there be laws.
There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.
Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.
Every law requires a response
The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind. The best you can do is do something and then make up some law to fit and by the time that law gets on the books you would have done something different. Do
Where there is law there is injustice
All laws work for our good; therefore, we should know and observe them.
Out there, in no man's territory, there is no law as you know.
Therefore you should create your own laws and enforce them.
If not, prepare to be hunted or ... subject to the laws of strangers.
Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.
Law is for those who have forgotten the language of the heart and only know the language of the mind.
We are a nation of laws.
Law and the Classes of Society, Judge
Laws can't control the lawless.
The only true law is that which leads to freedom,
There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
The law is an opinion with a gun.
Some Laws were meant to be broken.
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
They obey older laws.
Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.
Reason is the Soul of the Law.
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.
There are so many forms, I believe people are bright enough to make their own laws, more subtle ones than we've had before.
Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way if justice.
One with the law is a majority.
The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained,
Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.
The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!
Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions.
The Law may be hard but it's the law.
Laws die. Books never.
When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.
Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!
There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.
The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.
The law is what I can get away with and stay out of jail.
Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
Law is a bottomless pit.
Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.
Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.
Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.
The laws of decency enforce themselves.
The Law is Reason free from Passion.
Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.
In America, law substitutes for custom.
Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today.
Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
Where there's law there's injustice,
Laws should be made of iron, not of pudding.
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
A law without sanctions is no law; it is only counsel, or advice.
Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.
The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.
Only law can give us freedom.
Law it is ... which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.
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.
Law, without force, is impotent.
[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.
The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.
Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.
Law is the ultimate science.
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
Where there is no common power, there is no law