3,047 Quotes About Law

We were not going to liberate, release those terrorists because of our law and because of our national security and also the regional security.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.