Frank Herbert Quotes

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

Law is the rudder of the ship of state.

What is crucial is there be laws.

Law is not a science, but is essentially empirical.

I established law and justice in the land.

There is nothing certain in the principles of jurisprudence.

What I believe in is I believe in law.

We all want and need the rule of law to be upheld.

We are a country of laws.

We are nothing but by the law.

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

Right... is the child of law.

Law is king of all.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

All men must operate under one general law.

Bad facts make bad law.

I'm a big fan of the rule of law.

The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.