Law quotes

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

“In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.” Hillary Clinton

“I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.” Hillary Clinton

“To live outside the law, you must be honest.” Bob Dylan

“People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.” Clint Eastwood

“I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.” Audrey Hepburn

“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.” William James

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.” Immanuel Kant

“Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.” Immanuel Kant

“So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.” Immanuel Kant

“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.” Immanuel Kant

“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.” Immanuel Kant

“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.” Immanuel Kant

“May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.” Immanuel Kant

“There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.” Rush Limbaugh

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.” John Locke

“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.” Clive Staples Lewis

“I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.” Steve Martin

“But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.” Barack Obama

“After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.” Barack Obama

“Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.” Henry Miller

“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.” James Madison

“I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.” James Madison

“What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?” James Madison

“Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.” Marilyn Manson

“The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.” Niccolo Machiavelli