Quotes with law-abiding

Quotes 261 till 280 of 422.

  • John Ruskin The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bob Ney The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Archibald Macleish The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Anna Lindh The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bill Janklow The deal we made was that if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota - that's what they wanted, the invitation - if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota, he would guarantee South Dakota 400 Citibank jobs.
    Bill Janklow
    American politician (1939 - 2012)
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  • Burke Marshall The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.
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  • Bobby Scott The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Alfred Whitney Griswold The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
    Alfred Whitney Griswold
    American historian and educator (1906 - 1963)
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  • Cass Sunstein The economic analysis of law has had many good ideas. It's had one great idea -like, world-transforming idea, I think. And the idea is, when you're stuck, minimize the sum of the costs of decisions and the costs of errors.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • John Locke The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
    Second Treatise of Government VI, sec. 57
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Barry Commoner The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
    The Closing Circle
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Alexander Cockburn The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Mrs. Humphrey Ward The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
    Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The good of the people is the greatest law.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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