Quotes about Law
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
— Charles Dickens
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
— Calvin Coolidge
There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.
— Charles Spurgeon
If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.
— Sonia Sotomayor
... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.
— Martin Luther
I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.
— James Madison
I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.
— James Faust
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
Divine Law is not subject nor affected by the majority vote of humanity
— Myles Munroe
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
— CS Lewis
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
— William Golding