Top 1200 Laws Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.

It was all about hate. There should be laws. We're there laws? Can you legislate against hatred?

How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not being held hostage by the 'gun lobby,' but by the open borders lobby and the anti-law enforcement lobby.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate it.

Forget the laws. If the laws don't make sense, if they run contrary to your conscience, you have to disobey them.

We all need good laws, and an independent, impartial, and efficient judiciary to verify the constitutionality of those laws.

Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.

The weird thing about the arrow of time is that it's not to be found in the underlying laws of physics. It's not there. So it's a feature of the universe we see, but not a feature of the laws of the individual particles. So the arrow of time is built on top of whatever local laws of physics apply.

I believe there are an infinite number of laws of the universe and that all progress or dreams achieved come from operating in a way that's consistent with them. These laws and the principles of how to operate in harmony with them have always existed. We were given these laws by nature. Man didn't and can't make them up. He can only hope to understand them and use them to get what he wants.

People are unwilling to enforce the laws on the books. Instead, they make more laws. Why can't we get this right?

We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Mental and spiritual laws are so powerful that they can be used to multiply, neutralize, or even reverse natural laws!

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyrannical: only brute force (or seductive deception) can then bend the different moralities so that they fit the prescriptions of a single ethical system. And indeed, the idea of universal laws of nature and society arose in connection with a life-and-death battle: the battle that gave Zeus the power over the Titans and all other gods and thus turned his laws into the laws of the universe.

To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, counties or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

As long as it's a world, it has laws. Why, I don't know, it's just the way it is. In Nirvana, there are no laws.

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.

We are a nation of laws, and breaking those laws have consequences.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

If laws are just properties of objects, how can those laws continue to operate when the object is not really there?

People that support more gun laws tend to have the least knowledge of the laws that are already on the books.

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

When Federal law conflicts with state laws and the will of the American people, it's time to change the laws, not circulate edicts.

By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.

People determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.

We are a nation of laws and we must enforce our immigration laws.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.

The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

You let Congress make the laws. You work with the Congress as the president to make sure that those laws are accurate and to the best of our ability, but you don't turn it over to the federal judges to make those laws.

...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings and membranes. The laws of chemistry are the melodies that one can play on these strings. the universe is a symphony of strings. And the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace.

The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.

The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.

We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.

Legalizing pot would benefit society by first off having laws applicable to all, without those in control breaking the laws and making a mockery of our system. We need social justice. This requires laws equally applied to all. In addition, we could educate and rehabilitate the wrong doers. Not incarnate those misfortunate people for doubtful wrongs.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.

A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital.

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.