Quotes About Law

At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

The law does not require that to be proved which is apparent to the court.'

Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

What happened to the justice system and law when accusations and rumors are believed as truth instead of being proven with evidence? Rumors from sources, paid or bribed by rivals, are as much as lies when not backed up with credible evidence. - Kailin Gow, The New Justice

Animals have no rights

If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

P166) That's the way things usually work in North Korea: money and violence stand in for law and order. We even have a saying for it: "The law is far; the fist is close." The regime that never tires of denouncing capitalism has birthed a society where money is king— more so than any capitalist society I have visited.

how can a good man be a lawyer in a dictatorship?

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

It's definitely true that law enforcement investigations expand over time in appropriate ways.

It is imperative that state and local jurisdictions not scrimp on investing in law enforcement.

In a case involving his private conduct, a President should be treated like any private citizen. The rule of law requires no more - and no less.

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.

I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it's a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.

Islam and the Constitution are in clear conflict.

Under Islamic law, adoption is difficult.

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.

Israel is not an anarchy.

The route of the train of Israeli justice must take into account the Jewishness of the state.

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.