Congress voted for tougher laws on corporations. So now when a corporation buys a senator, they need a receipt.
He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.
That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.
The individual in the framework and in the service of his race, the race in the framework and in the service of God and of the laws of the divinity: those who will understand these things will win even though they are alone. Those who will not understand will be defeated.
I think there has been an unfortunate tendency for a lot of different groups to forget that distinction between natural law and revealed truth and to say: Our complete agenda is to be enacted into laws governing the entire society. Many different religious groups claim that authority, not only Catholics. A lot of different Protestant groups as well are stepping forward to say: Here is our agenda, it is a moral agenda, ergo it must be enacted into law. I think that the distinction between natural law and more ultimate kinds of doctrine is being lost.
When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.
The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections that they can use to justify indiscriminate, dragnet surveillance operations that were at best unwittingly authorized by lawmakers.
Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had reached a happy stage of history where bullshit could be used as rocket fuel.
As far as I'm concerned, the reformation of marijuana laws is something that I take seriously. I think it's something that can stimulate the economy.
The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
[American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is incorrect.
I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital.
When. . . we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.
You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.