Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
— Immanuel Kant
Fulfilling Above The Law quotations
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known;
our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known;
our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
No one is above the law, not even the president.
I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me... Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break.
This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it
I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the reducing division as indicated above may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity.
Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do.
But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from the mystery and beauty of the starry heavens above, and rather inspect, admire and foster the moral law within.
Let me be clear - no one is above the law.
Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
Famous people are above the law.
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in these acts of revenge on others, men take it upon themselves to begin the process of repealing those general laws of humanity which are there to give a hope of salvation to all who are in distress.
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.
If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the keepers of religion may themselves become one of the greatest dangers to the credibility - and the morality - of the church itself.
Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.
I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
No one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.
A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.
Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature.
Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power they represent what is, what must be, what otherwise could not be. Man can come to understand the: he is incapable of changing them.
No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.
Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
Impeachment appears six times in the U.
S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.
Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.
The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all;
to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.
Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.
Three ideas stand out above all others in the influence they have exerted and are destined to exert upon the development of the human race: The idea of the Golden Rule; the idea of natural law; the idea of age-long growth or evolution.
This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.