Quotes About Law

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

Change is the law of life.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

It is not the thief who is hanged, but one who was caught stealing.

Ancient custom has the force of law.

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

I have never moved away from my mainstay - trying to address all the environmental issues that come to me. I consult with law firms in the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Italy, Greece, and India to begin to address environmental disasters. I do motivational speaking.

If this country wants to elect someone with no political experience who is racially insensitive and golfs... In my first 100 days, I will make Taco Tuesday the law.

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.

Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.

I believe in international justice. I believe it's important that you don't just turn the page without people being held to account.

The 1986 act didn't turn illegal immigrants into citizens on the spot. It granted temporary resident status only to those who could prove they had resided continuously in America for five years. After 18 months, their status could be upgraded to permanent residency, and only after another five years could they become U.S. citizens.

As the Left demean law-abiding gun owners, they turn flaccid when faced with the armed felon.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.