Law Quotes

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?

I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.