Law Quotes

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Law is mind without reason.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

The deal we made was that if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota - that's what they wanted, the invitation - if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota, he would guarantee South Dakota 400 Citibank jobs.

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other.

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.