Pastoral Resources

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.