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"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."
Quote by -Charles Lamb
After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the surface of the earth and everything that has been a plant and an animal will be destroyed and transformed into a gaseous, volatile and mineral substance.
Quote by -Louis Pasteur
"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors."
Quote by -Catherine Deneuve
"The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue."
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
Quote by -Ambrose Bierce
"It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers."
Quote by -Carol Burnett
"I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite."
Quote by -Carol Burnett
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The most sacred laws of justice are the laws which guard the life and person of our neighbor.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Commerce and manufactures can seldom flourish long in any state which does not enjoy a regular administration of justice, in which the people do not feel themselves secure in the possession of their property, in which the faith of contracts is not supported by law, and in which the authority of the state is not supposed to be regularly employed in enforcing the payment of debts from all those who are able to pay. Commerce and manufactures, in
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Lawyers and attorneys, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation. This penalty, whatever it may be, can only be inflicted in two ways: by the agency of the Courts and Ministers of Justice, or by military force; by the coercion of the magistracy, or by the coercion of arms. The first kind can evidently apply only to men: the last kind must, of necessity, be employed against bodies politic, or communities, or States.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“A sacred respect for the Constitutional Law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“The reasonings contained in these papers must have been employed to little purpose indeed, if it could be necessary now to disprove the reality of this danger. That the people and the States should, for a sufficient period of time, elect an uninterrupted succession of men ready to betray both; that the traitors should, throughout this period, uniformly and systematically pursue some fixed plan for the extension of the military establishment; that the governments and the people of the States should silently and patiently behold the gathering storm, and continue to supply the materials, until it should be prepared to burst on their own heads, must appear to every one more like the incoherent dreams of a delirious jealousy, or the misjudged exaggerations of a counterfeit zeal, than like the sober apprehensions of genuine patriotism”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“A law, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe. This results from every political association. If individuals enter into a state of society, the laws of that society must be the supreme regulator of their conduct. If a number of political societies enter into a larger political society, the laws which the latter may enact, pursuant to the powers intrusted to it by its constitution, must necessarily be supreme over those societies, and the individuals of whom they are composed. It would otherwise be a mere treaty, dependent on the good faith of the parties, and not a government, which is only another word for political power and supremacy. But it will not follow from this doctrine that acts of the large society which are not pursuant to its constitutional powers, but which are invasions of the residuary authorities of the smaller societies, will become the supreme law of the land. These will be merely acts of usurpation, and will deserve to be treated as such. Hence we perceive that the clause which declares the supremacy of the laws of the Union, like the one we have just before considered, only declares a truth, which flows immediately and necessarily from the institution of a federal government. It will not, I presume, have escaped observation, that it expressly confines this supremacy to laws made pursuant to the constitution; which I mention merely as an instance of caution in the convention; since that limitation would have been to be understood, though it had not been expressed.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“we are not always sure that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a federal, and not a national constitution.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which has been reserved to the several States, and on the other, the share of power which has been given to the Union, it is evident that the Federal legislators entertained very clear and accurate notions respecting the centralization of government. The United States form not only a republic, but a confederation; yet the national authority is more centralized there than it was in several of the absolute monarchies of Europe....”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“But in America the sovereignty of the people is neither hidden nor sterile as with some other nations; mores recognize it, and the laws proclaim it; it spreads with freedom and attains unimpeded its ultimate consequences.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation; manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Thus the negro transmits the eternal mark of his ignominy to all his descendants; and although the law may abolish slavery, God alone can obliterate the traces of its existence.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Consequently, in the United States the law favors those classes which are most interested in evading it elsewhere.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
It is no disgrace but honourable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids;
Quote by -Xenophon
Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide.
Quote by -William Godwin
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
Quote by -William Gerald Golding
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now-and the ship had gone.
Quote by -William Gerald Golding
You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin