Law Quotes

This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.

We don't break the law.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.

It is a law of life that problems arise when conditions are there for their solution.