Top 1200 Obeying The Law Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do.

I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law.

For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.

Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

There is a law against discrimination in England. But there is a different law for the royal family.

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

The rule of law means that law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The judgments of the European Court of Justice have to be respected by all. To undermine them, or to undermine the independence of national courts, is to strip citizens of their fundamental rights. The rule of law is not optional in the European Union. It is a must.

Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

Grace means that God does something for me; law means that I do something for God. God has certain holy and righteous demands which he places upon me: that is law. Now if law means that God requires something of me for their fulfillment, then deliverance from law means he no longer requires that from me, but himself provides it.

In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.

There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law if you are to get the results you seek.

I just think it gets confusing for our communities when the federal law is different from the state law.

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

I am very happy as a mother-in-law. I have a lovely daughter-in-law.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases - the second law of thermodynamics - holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of nature'. It is not a little instructive that so similar a law [the fundamental theorem of natural selection] should hold the supreme position among the biological sciences.

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

When I was at Notre Dame studying under Joe Evans, Frank O'Malley, and others, there was a very lively debate about the distinction between natural law and revealed truth. Most of the philosophers of church and state expected that what was going to be advocated as the law of the land would be related to natural law. If you attempted to draw lines about certain general moral truths that were derivative of logic and reason, they would prove to be widely shared, and therefore suitable to be enacted into law on both the civic and religious sides.

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.

We can love all people while loving the law and expecting the law to be fulfilled, and that's a tricky balance.

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

When you have to pass a law to make a man let me have a house, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me go to school, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me walk down the street, you have to enforce that law and you'd have to be living actually in a police state. It would take a police state in this country.

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.

What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.

We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.

I think the law is equal for everyone and no one is immune from the law of the nation, the legal system.

We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of the majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S. and that's the way it's done in Russia.

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it's a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves, we need laws. Fraud is against the law, murder is against the law, drunk-driving is against the law. We don't need just nudges.