Law

Famous quotes containing the word law:

“Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.”
—Mary B. Harris (1874–1957)

“These, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Romans, 2:14.