Quotes about Law

And to the truth of this testimony is borne by what takes place in communities: because the law-givers make the individual members good men by habituation, and this is the intention certainly of every law-giver, and all who do not effect it well fail of their intent; and herein consists the difference between a good Constitution and a bad.

From whence it is evident, that those who seek for what is just, seek for a mean; now law is a mean.

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

Commandments are the railroad tracks on which the life empowered by the love of God poured into the heart by the Holy Spirit runs. Love empowers the engine; law guides the direction. They are mutually interdependent. The notion that love can operate apart from law is a figment of the imagination. It is not only bad theology; it is poor psychology. It has to borrow from law to give eyes to love.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.

I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought to continue to have good adoption law as an alternative to abortion.

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

God so commanded, and left that command Sole daughter of his voice; the rest, we live law to ourselves, our reason is our law.

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source of human offspring.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.