Law Quotes

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

That which is not just is not law.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.

More law, less justice.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

I think I've had my fill of electoral law.

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.