Law Quotes

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing.

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.

My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.