Changing Laws Quotes

[American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is incorrect.

The Law is not the same at morning and at night.

Things that used to be illicit are not illicit today. Licit products of yesterday, may be illicit today.

To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on. Well, the Fugitive Slave Act was the law, separate but equal was the law, lots of things are the law and then we change them.

We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.

Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit always remain the same.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.