Top 223 Lawful Quotes & Sayings

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

At some point, the law has to command respect, and there is a lawful way to change it.

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

The magistrates of whom Paul wrote were natural, ungodly, persecuting, and yet lawful magistrates, to be obeyed in all lawful civil things.

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.

Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

If it is orderly and lawful, immigration is good for our economy.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

I fear no motion of no confidence or impeachment, for they are the lawful mechanisms for the people of this beautiful country to remove their president.

From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.

A freakish homunculus germinated outside of lawful procreation.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.

Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.

Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.

To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.

Americans have a right to obtain firearms for lawful purposes.

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.

We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value.

Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.

The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning.

Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

In my view, the military action taken in Iraq in 2003 was not lawful under international law because there was no U.N. resolution expressly authorising it.

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

I am not a pacifist and I would back a lawful, coherent and compelling case for the use of military force by the U.K. against Isis.

Seen in the context of Donald Trump having committed sales tax fraud in the past, which is indisputable, I think that it's reasonable for the American public to ask, did you go beyond what's lawful, maybe scandalously lawful, but lawful, and violate the law?

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

We believe that when technology providers deploy encryption in their products, services, and platforms they need to maintain an appropriate mechanism for lawful access.

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.