Law Quotes

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law.

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

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

There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I expected to go into journalism or law.