Law Quotes

In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws.

Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

If a thought or an action does not feel right, it is a caution flag from the soul.

Show your love wherever you go, and enjoy love's blossoms whenever you return.

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'

With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.

An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.

The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

There's no law on the internet. There's no voice of reason. It's every man for himself!

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

What I need is a lawyer who specializes in the law of the jungle.

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade.

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

The law is a powerful thing but the law doesn't always change what's in people's hearts. And so all of us have an obligation to think about how we're treating other people.

Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.

National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents.

If you're one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance. This law will only make it more secure and more affordable.

I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions overrule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law.

I do have an obligation to make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there.

One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.

I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.