Quotes
Quotes about Law
Brushing with hasty steps the dews away,
To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill,
Along the heath, and near his fav'rite tree:
Another came; nor yet beside the rill,
Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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.
He sees that this great roundabout
The world, with all its motley rout,
Church, army, physic, law,
Its customs and its businesses,
Is no concern at all of his,
And says--what says he?--Caw.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
What constitutes a state?
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Men who their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.
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And sovereign law, that state's collected will,
O'er thrones and globes elate,
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.
No man e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law.
'T is a very fine thing to be father-in-law
To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!
That very law which moulds a tear
And bids it trickle from its source,--
That law preserves the earth a sphere,
And guides the planets in their course.
Plain living and high thinking are no more.
The homely beauty of the good old cause
Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence,
And pure religion breathing household laws.
And through the heat of conflict keeps the law
In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
The laws are with us, and God on our side.
The mere repetition of the Cantilena of lawyers cannot make it law, unless it can be traced to some competent authority; and if it be irreconcilable, to some clear legal principle.
The law: It has honored us; may we honor it.
There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop;there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.
The Constitution devotes the national domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution.
Mastering the lawless science of our law,--
That codeless myriad of precedent,
That wilderness of single instances.
Sweet is every sound,
Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet;
Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn,
The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Ring in the nobler modes of life
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event
To which the whole creation moves.
O great and sane and simple race of brutes
That own no lust because they have no law
I am going a long way
With these thou seest--if indeed I go
(For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)--
To the island-valley of Avilion,
Where falls not hail or rain or any snow,
Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies
Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard lawns
And bowery hollows crowned with summer sea,
Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
