Quotes About Law

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

To indiscriminately cast all law enforcement as enemies of our communities is to engage in an attempt to divide our nation by turning Americans against each other.

One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.

If you would have said, in law school, would it be more likely that I would be working on a book or on a TV show, I would have said book.

Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies.

Twitter is upholding sharia when they ban me for tweeting facts about sharia law.

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians.

A justice is not like a law professor, who might say, 'This is my theory... and this is what I'm going to be faithful to and consistent with,' and in twenty years will look back and say, 'I had a consistent theory of the First Amendment as applied to a particular area.'

Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.'

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. If the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Local people do want to see more police on the streets.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.

Well, enforcement theater is OK if it's reality theater. In other words, obviously, you want to make it clear, you want to make people see that the law is being enforced.

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.