But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.

It’s the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.

If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.

The Law of Attraction states that whatever you focus on, think about, read about, and talk about intensely, you’re going to attract more of into your life.

Love is the law of life.

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can’t make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can’t control – when they write lies at least – because the laws can’t really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.

One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

Women have a right, I believe, to do whatever they want as long as they don’t break the law.

What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, ‘I’ll give you citizenship now,’ that I don’t think is going to happen.

This is a career about images. It’s celluloid; they last for ever. I’m a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we’re free on paper and in law, I’m not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources – and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.