Quotes about Law

When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been 'lost' or stolen.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Moses, without any mercy, breaks all bruised reeds, and quenches all smoking flax. For the law requires personal, perpetual and perfect obedience from the heart, and that under a most terrible curse, but gives no strength. It is a severe task master, like Pharaoh's, requiring the whole tale ofbricks and yet giving no straw. Christ comes with blessing after blessing, even upon those whom Moses had cursed, and with healing balm for those wounds which Moses had made.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.