Law Quotes
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My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
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Without the foundation of law, this vast country could never have survived as one, could never have absorbed streams of immigrants from myriad cultures. With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
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'Free markets' is not a liberal or conservative issue. The rule of law is not a Right or Left issue. Those are American principles since our founding, and to the extent that other countries follow our lead... they will prosper. That's what I want, because every one of those people is a child of God.
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Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.
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However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
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Unless the law issues from all of the people, some of the people will feel left out. They will come to feel alienated. They will be angry. And this will not be a cohesive democracy.
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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.
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The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
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China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.
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Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.
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The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.
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Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
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Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
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Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel glorious.
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If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
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There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
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The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.
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In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.
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What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
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I worked my way through law school.
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Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law.
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Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.
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Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.
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Those who slew my father I drove into exile, punishing their deed by due process of law, and afterwards when they waged war upon the republic I twice defeated them in battle.
