Law Quotes

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.

The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what.

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.