Law Quotes

I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

The law is immoral.

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'

The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.

Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.

Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.