Quotes about Laws
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
— Will Rogers
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.
— James Madison
Success is not a pursuit...but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator
— Myles Munroe
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
This Constitution, and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the Supreme Law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
— Anonymous
Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws. The law develops its own power structure, creating more wounds and new injustices. Such trauma can be healed by cooperation, not by confrontation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer.
— Frank Herbert
How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find:
— Samuel Johnson
AFFORESTATION (AFFORESTA'TION) n.s.[from afforest.] The charter de Foresta was to reform the encroachments made in the time of Richard I. and Henry II. who had made new afforestations, and much extended the rigour of the forest laws.Hales'sCommon Law of England.
— Samuel Johnson
Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country; nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.
— John Adams
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
— John Adams
Christ does not make new laws; he rectifies the wrong interpretations of the scribes which had vitiated the purity of the law of God.
— John Calvin
This election [2016], and I believe this, is our last chance to secure the border, stop illegal immigration and reform our laws to make your life better.
— Donald Trump