Law Quotes

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

In addition the bill would expand an existing law 'conscience clause' that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

More law, less justice.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

One with the law is a majority.

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.

I will leave the U.S. Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

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.

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.