Quotes with law-makers

Quotes 401 till 420 of 429.

  • Cass Sunstein When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Orson Welles When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Shana Alexander When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
    Shana Alexander
    American journalist (1925 - 2005)
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  • Al Gore When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert Francis Kennedy Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Fielding Where the law ends tyranny begins.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Napoleon Who saves his country violates no law.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • William Mcilvanney Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
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  • Benjamin Hoadly Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is He who is truly the Law Giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote or spoke them.
    Sermon before the King of England, 31 March 1717
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  • Bill Hicks Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?
    Chicago 91
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Will Rogers With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Voltaire Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • William Cobbett Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Bill Pascrell Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Deepak Chopra You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
    Deepak Chopra
    East-Indian- American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer (1946 - )
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  • Bill McCollum You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.
    Bill McCollum
    American lawyer and politician (1944 - )
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