Quotes About Law

maybe the rest of your life—unless you get the death penalty." Taggart

the prosecution's case was circumstantial and they had no forensics

William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE

there is nothing so dangerous as a maxim. —C. J. MAY, "Some Rules of Evidence: Reasonable Doubt in Civil and Criminal Cases" (1876)

Robert Dugoni

Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, Commentaries on the Laws of England

Therefore in this more biblical way of looking at things joy (beatitude) is the consequence and not the enemy of law. What Jesus gives us in the Sermon on the Mount, therefore, is that new law that would discipline our desires, our minds, and our bodies so as to make real happiness possible.

Solomon Kane stood forth alone, grim man of a somber race: "Worthy of death he well may be, but the court ye held was a mockery, "Ye hid your spite in a travesty where Justice hid her face. "More of the man had ye been, on deck your sword to cleanly draw "Inforthright fury from its sheath, and openly cleave him to the teeth -- "Rather than slink and hide beneath a hollow word of Law.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

The tenement house is the enemy of modesty, the enemy of virtue, the enemy of patriotism. Home is where the virtues grow. I would like to see the law so that every home, to a small amount, should be free not only from sale for debts, but should be absolutely free from taxation, so that every man could have a home. Then we will have a nation of patriots.

The thing that you must remember about energy is that it is conserved , which is to say that there is always the same amount of it. It may convert from one form or another but the total amount is always the same.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

The American design of a constitutional Republic is such a "complete and self-supporting scheme." The heresy that dislocates it is the introduction of the denial that judges are bound by law.

He wondered what you had to do to lose your driver's license in Italy.

The pieces of soul can't be cut out without filling them up again, that's a real law there. God's law. Can't cut out the pieces any more than you can go around with a big hole in your gut. Got to be plugged up, replaced somehow.

But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law. – Galatians 4:4–5

If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. – Psalm 119:92 NIV

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. – Galatians 3:13

had come to accept that the court was an important forum where society, through battle, finds out and defines what it stands for.

A principle is suggested: When any action is regulated by law, the incentive for individual conscience to govern is diminished—unless the law coincides with almost universally held moral standards.

It comes out better if one persuades rather than compels. Let me suggest to the reader that the assumptions be examined—both about the making of profit and about undertaking to compel service by law. Is all that we want from profit-making business the lowest price we can exact? In my own efforts to help business to become more serving I feel that I am contending with a popular view that price is all.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

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