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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.
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- Government
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The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.
- Bad
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If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
- Comply
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I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.
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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
- Destiny
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The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
- Nature
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A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.
- Men
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All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel.
- Must
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Deities can actually own property in India, though the law treats them as minors, and they must be represented by an official guardian.
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I had been active in various bar associations ever since I was a law student, and I think that also helped because it made me more of a known quantity.
- Feel
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Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems. But is it more laws that we need? We have many laws - thousands upon thousands of them - but they are constantly being broken.
- Free
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In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'
- Experience
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