Quotes About Law

If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia.

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

Growing up, Karuna Shinsho on CNN was one of my idols, so I wanted to become either an anchorwoman or an international lawyer.

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

I loved thinking about how the law could be used to help others, how to interpret it that way. I think that probably comes from growing up in a family where my parents were actively involved in the community.

A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law.

Courts should interpret the law but leave elected lawmakers to create it.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Ignorance of the law is not excuse for breaking it. Make no mistake about it,

I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

To communicate and then stop, that is the law of discourse To go far and come to an end

But if the individual is to sacrifice a measure of personal liberty within the social contract, then individual rights must be guaranteed by law. Thus, it has been said that, in law, rights are the fence an individual erects around himself for protection against his neighbors. How absurd such a posture must seem from a worldview in which the individual emerges out of the society, rather than the other way around.

According to Fuller, laws should be (1) general, (2) publicly promulgated, (3) prospective (i.e., not retroactive), (4) clear, (5) consistent (i.e., not contain any contradictions), (6) practicable (i.e., not demand the impossible), (7) constant over time, and (8) congruent with the actions of officials. If we accept that list as defining the rule of law, America's departures from it will be apparent to readers of this book.

Fuller's procedural categories provide an inadequate definition of the rule of law. A legal regime might offer generality, publicity, clarity, consistency, constancy over time, and congruency with regulators, and still be a legal system from Hell. It might weaken property rights and impose civil liability on the flimsiest of grounds, all the while conforming to Fuller's idea of law.

It's a very lucrative field, you see. Keeping gangsters and corporate sharks out of jail.

Innocent until proven guilty," Williams stated. Decker smiled. Spoken like a true American with his ass against the wall.

The purpose of man's creation is that he do good in the world, not substitute himself for God and think that he can make and unmake the moral law at his own convenience and for his own selfish and narrow ends. This is the difference between physical laws and the moral law—the one is to be used and put to service; the other must be obeyed and served. For God says

La primera enseñanza de la polis griega es que la peor ley escrita es mejor que el albedrío del más magnánimo de los señores. No es extraño qüe la aristocracia primitiva exigiese que las leyes le asegurasen su poder mediante «draconianas» disposiciones, y que, aun así, la aceptación de las leyes hubiese de serle arrancada. Sabía que la concesión que se veía obligada a hacer era cualitativamente impagable, que no podía haber contrapartida equivalente.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law