Quotes about law

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

Ronald Reagan

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Abraham Lincoln

I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law.

Woody Allen

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

George Bernard Shaw

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Hillary Clinton

I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.

Orison Swett Marden

I know that I cannot take responsibility for other people. We are all under the law of our own consciousness.

Louise Hay

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don’t solve any problem because they’re so one of a kind.

Malcolm Gladwell