Quotes About Law

Most people have kind of done something that could put them in jail at least for one night.

I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that's not going to happen.

You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.

Those who carry out anti-national activities should be put in jail.

I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.

I never want to go to jail. Never, ever.

I don't want to have to talk to a lawyer if I want to jam with someone or if I want to sing on someone's album.

Slavery was legal. Japanese interment was legal in this country. Segregation was legal.

America is very fortunate to have Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.

I actually went to law school with Jim Comey. We were in the same class, and he was respected by our classmates just like he was respected by the agents that he supervised.

My job is to enforce the law, without fear or favor.

Joe Arpaio built a wall. His was a wall of distrust, and when you don't have the trust of the community, you don't have anything. He claimed to be a law-and-order sheriff, but he was really lawlessness and disorder.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

When I moved to Bengaluru to study law, I was looking forward to joining a theatre troupe.

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Judges ought to remember that their office is to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.

Ira Hominis Non Implet Iustitiam Dei

When liberal democracies work well, state, law, and accountability all reinforce one another

Societies seek to enforce basic social rules universally, but a rule of law that protects citizens against arbitrary actions of the state itself is often initially applied only to a minority of privileged subjects. The law, in other words, protects the interests of the elites who are close to the state or who control the state, and in that sense law resembles what Socrates in Plato's Republic labels the "justice of a band of robbers.

The rule of law is critical for economic development; without clear property rights and contract enforcement, it is difficult for businesses to break out of small circles of trust.

The repeated demand for "justice," incorporated into the names of many Islamist parties, reflects not so much a demand for social equality as a demand for equal treatment under the law.

However, neither rule of law nor political accountability exists in contemporary China any more than they did in dynastic China.