Statute Law Quotes

#1. Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

Elbert Hubbard

#2. This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.

Annie Besant

#3. 'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.

Theodore Roosevelt

#4. This passage, in fact, makes strikingly clear that both at the level of ontogenesis (the development of the child) and phylogenesis (the development of the human species) mimesis, for Nietzsche, precedes language and allows communication to take place.

Nidesh Lawtoo

#5. I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.

Milton Friedman

#6. But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

John Knox

#7. We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

Warren G. Harding

#8. You took my Lotus!"

Sissy choked on her champagne, and Ronnie started looking for the exits or law enforcement with arrest warrants.

Lord, what is the statute of limitations again?

Shelly Laurenston

#9. I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I probably learned more there than from my prestigious theater degree.

Diane Farr

#10. In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#11. It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

Felix Frankfurter

#12. A statute that lets some wrongfully convicted individuals seek restitution but denies that right to others is an unjust and unequal application of the law.

Eric Schneiderman

#13. What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

Harold Washington

#14. The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

#15. I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

Zoe Lofgren

#16. The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.

Milton Friedman

#17. It's the fucking hardest thing to do - to be around the person you love, every day, and not be able to love them.

Jay McLean

#18. Obama may be brilliant, but he's not a leader.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#19. By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

William Wordsworth

#20. The Bible is the statute-book of God's Kingdom, wherein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law, the perfect rules of a holy life, and the sure promises of a glorious one.

Ezekiel Hopkins

#21. There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

William Holden

#22. Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

Trey Gowdy

#23. The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.

Anthony Kennedy

#24. Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer