Law Quotes

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and a...

Possession is eleven points in the law.

Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or mil...

Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.

In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility...

What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's...

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther Kin...

When people's love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.

Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by direc...

At this point we can finally see what's really at stake in our peculiar habit of defining ourselves ...

A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has establi...

No one rules if no one obeys

Is peace of mind the co-workability of your laws?

I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuri...

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent...

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 2...

The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute f...

I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforce...

I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. ...

In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abor...

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, alth...

The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home - which means...

We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most import...

While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect a...

I was once in San Francisco, and I parked in the only available space, which happened to be on the o...

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law...

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be...

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the la...

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - whi...

We'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. A...

A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidan...

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succee...

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a res...

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Cong...

Since the beginningnot one unusual thinghas ever happened.

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciat...

Our civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic. In the criminal code w...

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the trans...

The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict th...

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is ...

This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, a...

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to u...

I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profilin...

They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they beli...

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of ...

In America an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent it means you beat the rap. My clients lose ev...

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American ar...

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tome...

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason that's all we ...

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we wor...

Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student he was expe...

An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not the Supreme Court follows the election r...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed i...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed i...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed i...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed i...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...

My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI ...

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Ju...

What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal an...

Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spo...

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water d...

Immediately after his re-election [Cameron] announced: “For too long we have been a passively tolera...

In front of the law there is a doorkeeper. A man from the countryside comes up to the door and asks ...

Could K. represent the congregation all by himself? What if he had been a stranger merely visiting t...

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ult...

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back...

Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are...

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally de...

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law...

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number o...

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spi...

One of the strangest phenomena of our time, and one that will probably be a matter of astonishment t...

I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anti...

There is in all of us a strong disposition to regard what is lawful as legitimate, so much so that m...

The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighte...

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling hi...

Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality,...

I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I ...

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the la...

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altoge...

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever pla...

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

But even when the principle of equal treatment was betrayed, American leaders in every era have emph...