Law Quotes

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.

I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.

Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

All the other chiefs and tribes have accepted the Great Law of Peace. They now live in peace with one another.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.