John Laws Quotes

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

Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws. — John Barrasso

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them. — John Updike

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws. — John Shadegg

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies. — John Lescroart

Making laws with penalties of death, and consequently — John Locke

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed. — John Howard Griffin

A government of laws, and not of men — John Adams

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. — John W. Gardner

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

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

No good government but what is republican ... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.' — John Adams

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. — John Godfrey Saxe

Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals. — John Stuart Mill

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do. — John Piper

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior. — John Perry Barlow

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold. — John Paul Stevens

The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being. — John P. Wheeler III

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

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death. — John Ruskin

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads. — John Ruskin

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws. — John Cornyn

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

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws. — John Adams

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

We live in a different world, you and me - governed by different laws ... — John Geddes

Nature hath no goal, though she hath law. — John Donne

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

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

So many laws argues so many sins. — John Milton

The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush. — John Barrasso

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

They that possess the prince possess the laws. — John Dryden

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God. — John Stuart Blackie

We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law. — John O. Brennan

Love knoweth no laws. — John Lyly

Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail,
strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance. — John Ruskin

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy. — John Grisham

All laws are simulations of reality. — John C. Lilly

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

John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. — Gary Kleck

It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written. — John Paul Stevens

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals. — John C. Calhoun

A great team with no bench eventually collapses. The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork — John C. Maxwell

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction. — John Ruskin

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

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

We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal. — John Boehner

The trouble today is that we have too many laws. — John Nance Garner

The United States of America ... has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility of Muslims. — John Adams

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. — John Milton

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

It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture. — John Yoo

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast. — John Greenleaf Whittier

We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history. — John E. Jones III

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it — John Milton

And still we love the evil cause
And of the just effect complain;
We tread upon life's broken laws
And murmur at our self-inflicted pain. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. — John Wooden

The laws of physics that we regard
as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything
but. — John Archibald Wheeler

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. — John Updike

The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws. — John Dingell

The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable. — John Pipkin

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant. — John Locke

They that make laws must not break them. — John Ray

Change is the law of life. — John F. Kennedy