Quotes About Law

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality of affirmative-action programs. But almost no one seriously argues about the basic meaning or legitimacy of core civil-rights protections.

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

Magazine clips with more than 10 rounds should be prohibited from civilian use.

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

My government is truly concerned with bringing prohibition.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.

Obama can show that America's promise of equality not only means that anyone can reach the highest office in the land - it also means that everyone is equally subject to the law.

As a child of the Commonwealth, I had been brought up to believe Great Britain was the promised land, a culture where the rule of law was observed and decency was embedded in the national fabric.

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious.

The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts.

I think cameras should be in the courtroom, but they need to be managed properly. You need a judge to hold the line.

Henry VIII Clauses allowing the Government to change almost any law of the land by statutory instrument, if needed, to implement Brexit must be properly restricted.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.

Satisfying a profit motive must never be the reason for law enforcement, and it certainly must never be allowed to support the seizure of personal property by those who we trust to protect and defend our nation and our Constitution.