Quotes of: Supreme-law Keyword

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau

I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

Felice Picano

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

Heather Brooke

The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed.

Jeffrey Chiesa

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

Elizabeth Warren

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

Edward Bennett Williams

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

Frederic Bastiat

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

Fawn Hall

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

Fred Thompson

There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.

Gisele Bundchen

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

Grover Cleveland

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

Craig Ferguson

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Charles Evans Hughes

In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

Carolyn Maloney

It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!

Charles Nodier

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Herbert Spencer

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

James A. Baldwin

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

Jimmy Connors

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

John C. Crosby

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

David Steinberg