Quotes with law-makers

Quotes 301 till 320 of 429.

  • Edgar Quinet The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Alvin Toffler The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Greg Anderson The Law of Win/Win says, ''Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Bernard Joseph Saurin The law often permits what honor prohibits.
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  • Bertolt Brecht The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Anatole France The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
    Original: La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The man for who the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • W. Clement Stone The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Benjamin Walker The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Ben Stein The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Anna Quindlen The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Carolyn Maloney The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Andrew Jackson The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • William O. Douglas The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.
    William O. Douglas
    American jurist and politician (1898 - 1980)
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