Quotes About Law

There is no doubt that the most heinous crimes warrant the death penalty.

When I went to law school, I took a bankruptcy class with then-professor, now-Senator Elizabeth Warren. And I'll never forget that first day of class, hearing her talk about the importance of the bankruptcy system.

Law enforcement must be guardians in our communities, not warriors against our own people.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

How can quality crime fiction not be produced with available subject matters as the Industrial Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the creation of organized police forces, the dawn of forensic science, and the rise and fall of Romanticism?

Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.

The lawyer plays on sympathies, tugs on heartstrings, and twists everything around so that somehow the rapist or murderer becomes the victim. Perhaps the lawyer's story of neglect and abuse is true. Sad, perhaps. But to me, it never cut it as an excuse. The dead person is the victim, and the murderer is the murderer.

Ah, but then, you see, I am a lawyer. And lawyers are notoriously unable to observe the law, just as actors are notoriously unable to act.

the rule of thumb' referred historically to the maximum width of the stick with which a man could beat his wife without breaking the law.

Rather than lead people to a "liberated happiness," these laws are destined to lead people to a pitiful darkening of the mind, a weakening of the will, and slavery to sin.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

There are two laws discrete,Not reconciled—Law for man, and law for thing.

will be remembered also for the great interest he took and the trouble he took over the question of Hindu law reform.

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain: you cannot have either until you have both.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

It was a kind of Occam's razor for law enforcement that adultery explained nearly everything. Infidelity. Lust. Stupidity and weakness.

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Everywhere the same law holds good: 'There is no weapon of your individual will which, once appropriated by others, does not turn against you.' If

The harder you run after time, the faster time goes: this is the law of the consumable.

Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general.