Quotes About Law

I]t is the powerful who write the laws of the world-- and the powerful who ignore these laws when expediency dictates.

Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowledge that you are growing a drug, when, rather magically, the exact same physical act becomes the felony of "manufacturing a controlled substance." Evidently the Old Testament and the criminal code both make a connection between forbidden plants and knowledge.

Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.

Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.

Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

I am opposed to amnesty - period. But don't just take my word on it. Ask any of the over 300 illegal aliens I arrested in a single day.

My decision has been that anyone who breaks the law will be prosecuted. If you're a parent or you're a single person or you happen to have a family, if you cross between the ports of entry, we will refer you for prosecution. You've broken U.S. law.

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

I want to make Meerut safer for women and improve the law and order situation.

In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.

The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation.

Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to see where it takes me.

Rubio rode his skill as a high school quarterback to college in Florida, followed by law school.

The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.

I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

My court skills may have atrophied.

The greatest law of Sahaja Yoga is that it is a collective happening.

All's love, yet all's law.

Will looked as if she had slpped him. "I didn't do it so you'd be grateful!" "Then what?" Her voice rose. "You did it because it's your mandate? Because the law says-" "I did it because I love you!

Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.

The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.