Quotes about Law

We must seek pure knowledge from the Law and the Prophets, in order that we may not be driven away from Christ by falsehoods invented by men.

I sing the progress of a deathless soul, Whom Fate, which God made, but doth not control, Placed in most shapes; all times before the law Yoked us, and when, and since, in this I sing. And the great world to his aged evening, From infant morn, through manly noon I draw.

The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.