Quotes with law-makers

Quotes 121 till 140 of 429.

  • Bernard Law Montgomery I want to impose on everyone that the bad times are over, they are finished! Our mandate from the Prime Minister is to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa...It can be done, and it will be done!
    Said to his troops in North Africa, promising the swift defeat of Rommel
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Brigham Young I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billie Jean King I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
    Billie Jean
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Thomas Moore I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • Becki Newton I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Angelina Grimke If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Maria Montessori If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Charles Morgan If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
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  • William Law If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
    William Law
    English priest (1686 - 1761)
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  • Arthur Eddington If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Addison Mizner Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
    Addison Mizner
    American architect (1872 - 1933)
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  • Calvin Coolidge In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Tacitus In all things there is a law of cycles.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Carolyn Maloney In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • James A. Froude In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Bela Lugosi In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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