3,047 Quotes About Law

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which theyre not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.

I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.

Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.

The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and more important, part of the law; subtract these and very little content would be left.

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.