Law Quotes

I am very pro law enforcement.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure.

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

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