Quotes About Law

I have to chuckle sometimes when I am painted as "hard-nosed." In truth, our Justice Department wasn't nearly as aggressive as Roosevelt's. And our respect for civil liberties was far more extensive than the response following Pearl Harbor. Yes, we were tough, but we always operated within the law; it was never our policy or practice to detain any noncombatant without charges. In our conduct, we never approached the limits of the law as closely as Roosevelt did.

It is not enough that we have a guilty defendant. We must have an innocent system as well.

Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.

Nature hath no gaol, though she hath law.

I sing the progress of a deathless soul, Whom Fate, which God made, but doth not control, Placed in most shapes; all times before the law Yoked us, and when, and since, in this I sing. And the great world to his aged evening, From infant morn, through manly noon I draw.

In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative.

Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw? Oh curst Effects of necessary Law! How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrea as Ranger Pearson! Texas!… More than 260,000 square miles! And 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America!

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo just signed a bill that bans powdered alcohol from the state. So if you live in New York and you're consuming powdered alcohol, your life just somehow got even worse.

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

It's more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.

By 2018, the laws had changed in many (though not all) states, and sixty-six US-based innocence projects had launched, with another ten in other countries joining the "Innocence Network" as well.

In republican Government the majority however composed, ultimately give the law," he wrote in his memorandum and implied in his letters, and "what is to restrain them from unjust violations of the rights and interests of the minority, or of individuals?

No law can shackle human thought