The Law Quotes
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.
Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday.
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.
Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge.
Promoting a religious agenda that is to apply to every citizen is inconsistent with our laws in the US. It seems to me that your community and mine can live and work together without conflict.
Women have a right, I believe, to do whatever they want as long as they don't break the law.
There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise.
It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.
Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.
It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.
In California, I guess you belong to the state; you don't even belong to your parents. It's an old Spanish law. It doesn't require your parents to swear out a complaint; anybody can.
Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to the law, to me the standard is the same.
Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.
If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.
But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen.
Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.
God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist
Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.
A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.
Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.
The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.
I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.
My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
Polls suggest that more and more, opposition to Obamacare is based on voters' personal experience, and not just on what they have heard or read about the law.