The Law Quotes
When you feel the need to have the right person show up in your life, affirm: 'I know the right person is arriving in divine order at precisely the perfect time.'
Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.
There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.
NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.
The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.
In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.
It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.
War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.
Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!
Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.
What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.
The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.
Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.
The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.
Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.
In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.
The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.
There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.