Law Quotes

If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

I think our vision heretofore has been and should continue to be to have Cardozo be the kind of law school that we can be proud of. I would like to see it gain recognition as one of the three best law schools in New York City.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.