Law Quotes

I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

I am ashamed the law is such an ass.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

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

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.

They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

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.

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.