
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