Quotes about Law
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.
— James Madison
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
— Booker T. Washington
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
— Thomas Jefferson
Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
— CS Lewis
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
— William Law
Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature
— Wayne Grudem
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.
— Malcolm X
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
— Cicero
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
— Cicero
By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.
— Thomas Jefferson
If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.
— Thomas Jefferson
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower