Law

Famous quotes containing the word law:

    “It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today? But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children...”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 4:8,9.

    “When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”
    —HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)