Quotes About Law

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz

grand jury indictment is not a conviction.

news—news which was withheld or slanted in Italy, where journalism had been defined, by law, as a supportive adjunct to national policy.

She eventually made it to the Bureau—a career advancement that had the primary benefit of keeping her keester out of the line of fire. Until today. "Local SWAT is en

He's defiant, even when challenged by law enforcement.

Catch One: The Case of Edmund Rosner

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

I'm glad that civil liberties continue to have some standing in this country.

Ronald Dworkin has recently argued that the central doctrine of modern liberalism is the thesis that questions about the good life for man or the ends of human life are to be regarded from the public standpoint as systematically unsettlable. On these individuals are free to agree or to disagree. The rules of morality and law hence are not to be derived from or justified in terms of some more fundamental conception of the good for man.

That law is one and the same for all rational beings; it has nothing to do with local particularity or circumstance. The good man is a citizen of the universe; his relation to all other collectivities, to city, kingdom or empire is secondary and accidental. Stoicism thus invites us to stand against the world of physical and political circumstance at the very same time that it requires us to act in conformity with nature.

At King Henry's Mound there is a perfect, uninterrupted view – created in 1710 – through a gap in the trees and all the way across the city to St Paul's Cathedral. It is a view that is protected by law. Protecting magnificent views is proof that the law is not, always, an ass.

To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality.

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.

I would have liked to personally have prosecuted Scott Peterson.

I went to the Old Bailey, and I met a judge, and I was petrified, but they were like, 'Oh, you're an actor, well, great.' It was a bit like we're cut from the same cloth a little bit.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

There is no reason why any legitimate caller should be spoofing an unassigned or invalid phone number. It's just a way for scammers to evade the law.

One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun.

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

As attorney general, I don't get to pick and choose the laws I like and don't like.