The Law Quotes

We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.

This is what everybody's forgetting about [Barak] Obama and his immigration law and his executive action and his amnesty on it, the Supreme Court decision. Immigration law is settled.

A federal appellate circuit looked at what [Barak] Obama was doing and said he can't do it. Immigration law is settled.

[Barak] Obama's immigration behavior, executive amnesty, this DREAMer stuff - everything he's doing - is outside the law.

Sharia law is totally intolerant of homosexuality. It's not permissible.

The American people love immigration. They just want it obeyed. They want the laws obeyed. They want there to be assimilation.

I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with no connection to terrorism.

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it.

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the law, terminates my enlistment, and discharges me cured.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.

I believe, assume the power to decide more political than legal issues in nature, the people naturally focus less on the law and more on the lawyers that are chosen really to administer the law.

The Cause and Effect law is the secret gearing in the machinery of Nature.

All the laws of Nature exist inside us, and if we don't find them inside ourselves we will never find them outside.

Karma is a medicine which is given for our own good. Karma is the law of compensation, not of vengeance.

Everything is the result of the Law of Action and Consequence but with the possibility that a superior law transcends an inferior law.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.

Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state Senate.

I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out.

To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.

There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass.

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.