Quotes of: Supreme-law Keyword

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

John F. Kerry

Dwight Dickham: The law is the only thing capable of making people equal

The Judge

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

Henry Knox

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Comte de Lautreamont

Itzhak Stern: By law I have to tell you, sir, I'm a Jew. Oskar Schindler: Well, I'm a German, so there we are.

Schindler's List

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

Abbe Pierre

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

Edward Levi

During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian.

Greg Abbott

For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

Mel Carnahan

Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel.

Michio Kaku

I explain the law of compensation like this: 'Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

Robert Kiyosaki

But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.

Rose Schneiderman

The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.

Sheri Fink

Clark: My cousin in-law, whose heart is bigger than his brain... Eddie: I appreciate that, Clark. Clark: ...Is innocent.

Christmas Vacation

Bobbie: You always makin' big plans for tomorrow. You know why? Because you always fuckin' up today.

Down by Law

[first lines] Jack: Julie, what're you doing out here? Julie: Just watching the light change.

Down by Law

Gandhi: The function of a civil resistance is to provoke response and we will continue to provoke until they respond or change the law. They are not in control; we are.

Gandhi

Boss Tweed: The appearance of law must be upheld, especially while it's being broken.

Gangs of New York

Happy Jack: I'm paid to uphold the law. Bill: What in Heaven's name are you talking about?

Gangs of New York

Sallah: [an explosion destroyed the car that Indy, Sallah and Dr. Jones arrived in] That car was my brother-in-law's.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): We're the same. Lee: No, we're not the same! I uphold the law and you break it!

The Killer