Law Quotes
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It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
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A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.
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I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.
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Don't be afraid of me. I'm a law maker I'm not a law breaker.
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The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
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A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy and puppy might grow to manhood and doghood together, and together grow old, and so in due course die, full many a heartache might be avoided. But the world is not so ordered, and dogs will die and men will weep for them so long as there are dogs and men.
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I believe that Muslims that are in our society today are of course equal as anybody else, as long as they adhere to our laws, to our constitution, to our values.
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God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist...
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Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Ideas exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws.
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The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.
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At some point, Moore's law will break down.
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I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.
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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
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Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.
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The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
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If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist system, a sector of the liberal middle class will shift to the left, and then shift smartly back again once the crisis has blown over.
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Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.
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Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.
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That is the situation in the factory where I work. The union has never gone in and the workers are nothing but poor victims of blackmail, dependent on the law of the owner, that is: I pay you and so I possess you and I possess your life, your family, and everything that surrounds you, and if you don’t do as I say I’ll ruin you.
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Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.
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The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are?
