Quotes with law-enforcement

Quotes 321 till 340 of 419.

  • Charles Evans Hughes The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
    Charles Evans Hughes
    American statesman and Republican politician (1862 - 1948)
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  • Octave Mirbeau The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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  • Edward Gibbon The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery The US has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself.
    In the House of Lords on American policy in Vietnam, 1962.
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Bill Cosby The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Ayn Rand There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Stokely Carmichael There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Alfred Adler There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Edmund Burke There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Barbara Jordan There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Eric Butterworth There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Francis Bacon There was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
    Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625)
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barbara Castle There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Ben Hecht There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Cass Sunstein This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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