Law Quotes

My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.

They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

I am very pro law enforcement.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure.

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.