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There is a set rule that you have to follow the law! Other than that, there are different laws formed by each and every country according to which the people and society must act. All the nations in the world are bound by a certain set of principles. You might think lawyers have the best job in the country, but with so many different types of law such as corporate law, criminal law, contract law, administrative law, trust law and so on, there is a lot of work on hand. To get some clues about what this article is about, read about some famous commandment/regulation quotations.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

Society Marriage
Ben Shapiro
Sonia Sotomayor

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

Facts
Sonia Sotomayor

Of course, the Supreme Court's work is vital not just to a region of the country, but to the whole, vital to the protection of the people's liberties under law and to the continuity of our Constitution, the greatest charter of human liberty the world has ever known.

People Work World
Neil Gorsuch
Stephen Breyer

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

Liberty
Stephen Breyer
Samuel Alito

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

Samuel Alito
Anthony Kennedy

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

Anthony Kennedy
Paul Newman

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Paul Newman
Thomas Hobbes

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Sadness Power Rule Corruption
Thomas Hobbes

President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people. But those rights were empty promises, because that system did not have an independent judiciary to uphold the rule of law and enforce those rights.

People
John Roberts

We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.

World
Vladimir Putin
Richard Jewell

It's a bomb. I've already called law enforcement. Let's get out of here.

Richard Jewell

The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.

People Liberty
James Comey

People must be confident that a judge's decisions are determined by the law and only the law. He must be faithful to the Constitution and statutes passed by Congress. Fidelity to the Constitution and the law has been the cornerstone of my life and the hallmark of the kind of judge I have tried to be.

Life People
Merrick Garland
Andrew Carnegie

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Business
Andrew Carnegie
Franklin P. Jones

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Advice Anger Argument / Debate Opinion
Franklin P. Jones
Sylvester Stallone

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

Anger People Lonliness
Sylvester Stallone
Tony Blair

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

People Democracy Freedom
Tony Blair
Neil Gorsuch

A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge... stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands.

Neil Gorsuch

Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you're risking, what you're bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn't hurt anybody else.

Edward Snowden

Instead of candidates hiring people, like yours truly, to create campaign media that works on both conscious and subconscious levels to sway the voting public, what if all TV ads were, by law, only allowed to feature the candidate, with, say, the American flag as the backdrop, alone, speaking directly to the camera?

People Voting Lonliness
Ron Howard
Thomas Hobbes

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

Life Men Revolt Revolution
Thomas Hobbes

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Women
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Abbie Hoffman

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Rule Justice
Abbie Hoffman
Sonia Sotomayor

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

Sonia Sotomayor

Practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw, too, that when we judges don our robes, it doesn't make us any smarter, but it does serve as a reminder of what's expected of us: Impartiality and independence, collegiality and courage.

Courage Work Self-Reliance
Neil Gorsuch

I was popular, and I enjoyed that, and my mother kept telling me I better take typing so I'd have something to fall back on. I didn't know what the future held, but once I got my law degree, I started to feel like, 'OK, I'm a serious person.'

Future
Megyn Kelly
Edgar Watson Howe

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Death
Edgar Watson Howe
Julius Caesar

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Power
Julius Caesar
Al Gore

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

Facts
Al Gore

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.

Good People
Anne Boleyn
Ronald Reagan

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Society Time
Ronald Reagan
Helen Reddy

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.

Women Hatred
Helen Reddy

I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

John Roberts

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

Truth Wisdom
Elena Kagan
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Life
Dwight D. Eisenhower
B. R. Ambedkar

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Body Medicine
B. R. Ambedkar

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

Life
Jude Law
Kristi Noem

I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.

Kristi Noem
Steve King

Rewarding law breakers produces more law breakers.

Steve King
Anatole France

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Sleep Equality
Anatole France
Ralph Macchio

I did an episode of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' with Jeff Goldblum, which was fun because I've known him for years.

Order Fun
Ralph Macchio
Neil Gorsuch

Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.

Business Light
Neil Gorsuch
Ted Cruz

One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

Government
Ted Cruz
Paul Newman

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Paul Newman

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

People Business Trust
Hillary Clinton
James Comey

The spine of the FBI is the rule of law. The spine of the FBI is a commitment to doing the right thing, in the right way, while protecting civil liberties.

Commitment
James Comey
Keir Starmer

In my view, the military action taken in Iraq in 2003 was not lawful under international law because there was no U.N. resolution expressly authorising it.

Action
Keir Starmer
Robert Kennedy

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Community Society
Robert Kennedy
Julian Assange

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Good Intelligence
Julian Assange
John Roberts

I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it upholds the rule of law and safeguards those liberties that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans.

Work Self-Reliance Truthfulness
John Roberts
Rosario Dawson

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'

Responsibility
Rosario Dawson
Gerard Butler

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.

Society Training
Gerard Butler
Kimberly Guilfoyle

My mother, oddly enough, really wanted to pursue a career in law, but at the time, she had children and was working as a teacher.

Time Teachers Children
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Brandon Lee

I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.

Work
Brandon Lee
Jerry Seinfeld

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

Parents
Jerry Seinfeld

I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed.

Stars
Bill Maher
Kamala Harris

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

Greatness People
Kamala Harris

There's a lot of the Midwest and the West in Justice Rehnquist's approach to constitutional law. And by that I mean a recognition that people know pretty well how to govern themselves, that government that is closest to the people is apt to be more responsive to their legitimate concerns and needs.

People Government Justice
John Roberts
B. R. Ambedkar

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Freedom
B. R. Ambedkar
Thomas Jefferson

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Delivery Country Crushes Strength
Thomas Jefferson
Billie Jean King

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

Billie Jean King
Thomas More

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

Bible Belief Leader Rule
Thomas More
Sarah Paulson

I did an episode of 'Law & Order,' where I literally didn't move my neck because I thought you couldn't move your head on camera.

Sarah Paulson

A justice is not like a law professor, who might say, 'This is my theory... and this is what I'm going to be faithful to and consistent with,' and in twenty years will look back and say, 'I had a consistent theory of the First Amendment as applied to a particular area.'

Justice
John Roberts
Bob Dylan

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Bob Dylan
Stephen Colbert

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

Time
Stephen Colbert
Bill Maher

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.

People
Bill Maher
Brett Kavanaugh

I am proud that a majority of my law clerks have been women.

Women
Brett Kavanaugh
Elena Kagan

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

Money Funding
Elena Kagan
Kimberly Guilfoyle

I've always had an interest in broadcast journalism and the law. So it's nice that I can combine the two.

Journalism
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Good Opinion Community Reason
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Steve King

Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.

Justice
Steve King
Thomas Jefferson

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Friendship Opinion Pollution Corruption
Thomas Jefferson

Those of us in law enforcement must redouble our efforts to resist bias and prejudice. We must better understand the people we serve and protect - by trying to know, deep in our gut, what it feels like to be a law-abiding young black man walking on the street and encountering law enforcement. We must understand how that young man may see us.

People
James Comey

I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight in the law courts and should boldly bear the heaviest possible sentences inflicted upon them. They may defend themselves but always from purely political considerations and never from a personal point of view.

Bhagat Singh
Robert Kennedy

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Freedom Politics
Robert Kennedy
Thomas More

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Pollution Protests Reason Safety
Thomas More
Samuel Johnson

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Nature Power Women
Samuel Johnson
Idris Elba

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

Order
Idris Elba

A judge sometimes must release a criminal. He doesn't like it, she doesn't like it, but the law requires it. And the context of an election in which you are "soft on crime" betrays a misunderstanding of the judicial process and a misunderstanding of the Constitution.

Anthony Kennedy
Gloria Steinem

Law and justice are not always the same.

Justice
Gloria Steinem
Vladimir Putin

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

Vladimir Putin
Shinzo Abe

Japan and Australia share the universal values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights.

Democracy Freedom
Shinzo Abe
John Roberts

I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.

PC School
John Roberts

The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.

Society Women Justice
Robert Kennedy
Steve King

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

Steve King
Sandra Day O'Connor

Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.

People Commitment Time
Sandra Day O'Connor
Stephen Breyer

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Facts Self-Reliance
Stephen Breyer

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

Feelings Losing
John Wayne
Barack Obama

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

Jobs Police
Barack Obama
Mitch McConnell

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first administration.

Life
Mitch McConnell
Alexandra Daddario

My mom used to model when she was younger, before she went to law school, and I think she thought it was pretty cool. I think my parents saw that acting ultimately made me happy, even though it was a rough ride for a little bit.

Cool
Alexandra Daddario

In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were trying to bring both law and justice into contempt. The situation afforded us an opportunity to show to the public whether we were trying to bring law into contempt or whether others were doing so.

Opportunities Justice
Bhagat Singh
Bella Hadid

I literally order sushi, watch 'Law & Order,' and go to sleep at 9 o'clock every night. I'm a grandmother.

Night Sleep
Bella Hadid
Henry David Thoreau

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Nature Government
Henry David Thoreau
Susan B. Anthony

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Progress
Susan B. Anthony
Mike Pence

I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizen's makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe.

Mike Pence
Stephen Breyer

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.

People
Stephen Breyer
Alicia Keys

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

Power Prayer
Alicia Keys
Judy Garland

In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.

Judy Garland