- Cloak
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law Quotes
Rules, choices, and the order behind them.
This page draws on law in a broad sense — the rigorous logic of scientific theory, the real fork in the road between law school and an acting career, and a general preference for a quiet evening over anything more dramatic. For the legal system specifically, see our Legal quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
- Electrical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
- Nov 07, 2020
The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are brunch hounds. We also like movie dates. There's a lot of diners, a lot of movies. We're 'simple pleasures' people. It doesn't have to be crazy. It could be a 'Law and Order' marathon on the couch, or it could be dinner or a show. We like to mix it up.
- Charter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Again and again, there is no respect for the United Nations Charter that makes it illegal under international law to seek regime change.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020