Law
- Lori Douglas, Manitoba judge
- Robert Dick Douglas (1875–1960), American lawyer and son of Robert M. Douglas
- Robert M. Douglas (1849–1917), American judge, North Carolina Supreme Court justice
- William O. Douglas (1898–1980), American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
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Famous quotes containing the word law:
“There’s no law against taking off a spaceship. It’s never been done so they haven’t gotten around to prohibiting it.”
—Rip Van Ronkel, and Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988)
“Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)