- Fines
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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
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
- Permanent
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law has always been the name of that rule or principle of justice, which protects those rights. Thus we speak of natural law.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving of the child, as if the wrong of enslaving the parent had never been perpetrated.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daily fantasy sports operators claim that they operate legally under Alabama law. However, paid daily fantasy sports contests are, in fact, illegal gambling under Alabama law.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost every day, you see an article in the papers about someone violating a campaign finance law.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020