laws Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about laws.
“The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.”
- Niccolo Machiavelli
“Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.”
- Stuart Chase
“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.”
- Housman, A. E.
“Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.”
- Gerald R. Ford
“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”
- Antonio Gaudi
“It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.”
- Andrew Jackson
“God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.”
- Nicolas Malebranche
“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.”
- William James
“As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.”
- Pythagoras