Quotes About Law

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.

Due to enhanced freedom to police, the law and order situation in the state has improved.

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.

In the end, crime doesn't pay.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

The modern military justice system is by design a body incapable of blind justice.

Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.

If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes.

Sharia law is completely incompatible with our constitution!

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

I think we live in a country that sometimes forgets how effective the rule of law is, perhaps because our governments have often found it inconvenient.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Jurisprudential law is sham law: to ascribe stability to this creature of the imagination, is to ascribe stability to a shadow.

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

This can't be constitutional," he said. "This is America, damn it. We still have freedom of speech here.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

There can therefore be no such thing as annihilation. if evil exists, it can only be an aberration of the divine Law, and not as a principle.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

Go ahead; embark on your journey now—walk the path of Goodness, Life, Law, and Reason.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

The law was made for one thing alone,for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. And anyone who wants a crumb of this exploitation for himself must obey the law strictly.