Law Quotes
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A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
Ramsey Clark
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
Wendy E. Long
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When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
Kate Clinton
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
George Bernard Shaw
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We must bring the rule of law to its full fruition in the United States, and when we do, we will have achieved the goals and rhetoric of our Founding Fathers.
David Boies
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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.
Jean Giraudoux
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
Rachel Sklar
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Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
H. L. Mencken
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I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
Foster Friess
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The Law continues to exist and to function. But it no longer exists for me.
Martin Luther
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We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
Federica Mogherini
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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
J. Edgar Hoover
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
Randall Terry
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I admire law enforcement agents who put their lives on the line to enforce the law while building trust and understanding within a community and around the world. I honor those who seek justice for all the people of this country.
Janet Reno
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
Nancy Johnson
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I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.
Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel
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We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a great job, and we do, I think, more to protect people's civil liberties and privacy than they'll ever know.
Keith B. Alexander
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You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
Jesse Ventura
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
Ibrahim Hooper
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'Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.'
Brigham Young
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
Rachel Sklar
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We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons.
Walter Cronkite