Top 100 John Laws Quotes
#1. I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
John Dryden
#2. Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.
John Calvin
#3. You don't doubt that the lobby supporting the enactment of same sex-marriage laws in different states is politically powerful, do you? ... As far as I can tell, political figures are falling over themselves to endorse your side of the case.
John Roberts
#4. The Lord said, 'If ye love me, keep my commandments.' (John 14:15.) Our obedience to the laws, ordinances, and commandments is the greatest expression of love and gratitude that we can bestow upon him.
Robert D. Hales
#5. Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#6. When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it.
John Polkinghorne
#7. I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.
John Perry Barlow
#8. Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.
John Grisham
#9. The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws.
John Dingell
#10. The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.
John Ruskin
#11. If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.
John Stuart Mill
#12. We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.
John Bevere
#13. Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
John Locke
#14. At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.
John Hutton
#15. As society changes, laws have to change to protect citizens along the way. Sometimes you have to try new and different and creative ways to solve problems. You have to take some risks.
John Rowland
#16. The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you
disagree as well as those with which you agree.
John F. Kennedy
#17. It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
John Von Neumann
#18. The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.
John Barrasso
#19. For nothing is more dangerous than to live where the public license of crime prevails; yea, there is no pestilence so destructive, as that corruption of morals, which is opposed neither by laws nor judgments, nor any other remedies.
John Calvin
#20. No good government but what is republican ... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'
John Adams
#21. The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure (and, one might add, poor) fiction. To call it science-fiction would besmirch the name of science.
John C. Lennox
#22. The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.
John Locke
#23. Since the beginning of time there have been people who see themselves as being above the law. To them the laws don't apply. These people often hold positions
in government and in the corporate world. Does a similar mentality exist within the casino world?
You betcha!
John-Talmage Mathis
#24. Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
John Adams
#25. Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
John Yoo
#26. Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.
John Stuart Mill
#27. Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security - and that's worth less than no sense of security at all.
John Stossel
#28. While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.
John Boehner
#29. A great team with no bench eventually collapses. The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork
John C. Maxwell
#30. Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.
John Sterling
#31. It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.
John Yoo
#32. Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
John Tillotson
#33. Physical laws are ruled by logic, and are ungovernable: so when the die comes to rest on its edge, it owes neither apology nor account.
John Hadac
#34. In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.
John Amery
#35. I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
Elton John
#36. We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.
John F. Kerry
#37. Mr. President, no one is saying you broke any laws, we're just saying it's a little bit weird you didn't have to.
John Oliver
#38. When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud ... the ground is shifting.
John Battelle
#39. What like the apprehension of free forgiveness (and that apprehension must come in through a sight of the greatness of sin, and of inability to do any thing towards satisfaction), to engage the heart of a rebel to love his prince, and to submit to his laws?
John Bunyan
#40. This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.
John Howard Griffin
#41. As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.
John Peter Altgeld
#42. The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
John Marshall
#43. When individuals are established in universal consciousness, they live the scientific reality of the unity of life spontaneously in accord with all the laws of nature. This experience alone will transform our collective reality - our human civilization to one of unity, peace, and harmony.
John Hagelin
#44. To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.
John Updike
#45. Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley
#46. Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench
John Milton
#47. As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good.
John Adams
#48. The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable.
John Pipkin
#49. I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.
John F. Kennedy
#50. One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.
John Steinbeck
#51. Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.
John Burroughs
#52. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws.
John Quincy Adams
#54. All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
John Coltrane
#55. The four laws of learning are: the first is demonstration of what you want. The second is the criticism of the demonstration. The third is the imitation of the correct model, and the fourth is repetition, over and over until it becomes habit where is you don't think about it.
John Wooden
#56. If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
John Lancaster Spalding
#57. In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
John Yoo
#58. When the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force.
John Longenecker
#59. All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
John W. Gardner
#60. Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
John Lewis
#61. The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.
John Podesta
#62. Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders.
John Herschel
#64. It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.
John Conyers
#65. If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.
Mark Shields
#66. A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.
John Paul Stevens
#67. Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.
John Shadegg
#68. There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.
John Ruskin
#69. I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition.
John Boehner
#70. While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
John Yoo
#71. Laws can discover sin, but not remove it
John Milton
#72. A government of laws, and not of men
John Adams
#73. We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.
John Boehner
#74. Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?
John Constable
#75. Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.'17 The same could be said of music.
John Eliot Gardiner
#76. Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself ... She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
John Locke
#77. A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.
John Cornyn
#78. Americans just want us to ... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified ... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.
John Glenn
#79. The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.
John C. Calhoun
#80. The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.
John P. Wheeler III
#81. They that possess the prince possess the laws.
John Dryden
#82. The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing to him who delights in numbers, spurning alike the wild irrationality of life and baffling complexity of nature's laws.
John Lighton Synge
#83. Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.
John Adams
#85. I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John Mortimer
#86. From the day of the Declaration ... they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.
John Quincy Adams
#87. In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws.
Ann Coulter
#88. The United States of America ... has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility of Muslims.
John Adams
#89. I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.
John Adams
#90. Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
John Ruskin
#91. If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.
John Linder
#92. If I were doing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member, the United States, because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world. All international laws are invalid, meaningless attempts to constrict American power.
John Bolton
#93. There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
John Henry Newman
#94. Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.
John Barrasso
#96. It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
#97. Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.
John Barrasso
#98. The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes ... of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.
John Quincy Adams
#99. They that make laws must not break them.
John Ray
#100. Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.
John Goodwin
