Quotes
Quotes about Law
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute laws which the people have made and within the limits of a constitution which they have established.
See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men, Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.
How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet! How it rattles on the shutter! How it rumples up the lawn! How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, From darkness until dawn.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. [James 2:8].
There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
The crooked end obedient spirits draws, The pointed, those rebels who spurn at Christian laws. [Lat., Curva trahit mites, pars pungit acuta rebelles.]
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end of our dreams.
No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise.
Where stray ye, Muses! in what lawn or grove, . . . . In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides, Or else where Cam his winding vales divides?
'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw.
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will.
