Law Quotes

People shouldn't be afraid to bring up issues of bias in law enforcement.

A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

I stress that we unambiguously support strengthening the non-proliferation regime, without any exceptions, on the basis of international law.

Of course one always has to follow international law. This was also the case in Crimea. According to the Charter of the United Nations, every people has the right to self-determination.

In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.

The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international law.

It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.

If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress.

He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it.

No man is above the law.

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

Of course the law's not racist.

Labor is the law of happiness.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.

[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.

The laws of a state change with the changing times.

This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.

Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.

lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.

As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws

It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.

The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.