Quotes About Law

A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

The more laws, the less justice.

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

Police do not belong in war zones.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

A basic guideline of living with the Law is gratitude. Showing gratitude for your family, smiling, and thanking them helps create a harmonious home.

Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.

Men like him should be required by law to carry a heart defibrillator. He

No, Mrs. Peters doesn't need supervising. For that matter, a sheriff's wife is married to the law.

Well there you have it, just like drinking and driving, if you get behind a wheel with a phone in your hand and you cause a death, then chances are you will face very serious charges.

The slavery was permitted under an 1850 California law that allowed white people to buy Native American children as "apprentices," and to "bid" on Native Americans who were declared "vagrant," and oblige them to work off the cost of the bid.

sparking floor fan resulted in the loss of all the books in Temple University's law library in 1972.

The block had small offices and an outdoor arena where weekly slave-labor auctions were held. The slavery was permitted under an 1850 California law that allowed white people to buy Native American children as "apprentices," and to "bid" on Native Americans who were declared "vagrant," and oblige them to work off the cost of the bid. (The law, known as Act for the Government and Protection of Indians, was not repealed entirely until 1937.)

Patrick Henry argued that according to British law, no British citizen could be forced to pay a tax unless his representative... in Parliament agreed. But since there were no Americans in Parliament, the colonies didn't have representation. Any tax passed by Parliament was illegal...

or even mid September 1793, when Terror—the policy of intimidation—was officially declared "the order of the day" and the Law of Suspects was passed, which made it far too easy for a citizen to be suspected and imprisoned for counter-revolutionary sympathies or even for apathy, and which greatly expanded the powers of the Revolutionary Tribunal.

The English criminal code, later known as the "Bloody Code," was brutal in the late 18th century. By the time the first legal reforms were enacted in 1826, 220 crimes—many of them relatively petty crimes against property as Dickens describes in the rest of the paragraph—were punishable by death.

now that I'm stuck here for an undetermined amount of time, it seems beyond foolish not to let me help." She took a bite for emphasis. "You could at least let me make you a sandwich," she added balefully through her mouthful. "That was me being respectful of your law degree," Ian said.

Caesar Flickerman asks if the president has a date in mind. "Oh, before we set a date, we better clear it with Katniss's mother," says the president. The audience gives a big laugh and the president puts his arm around me. "Maybe if the whole country puts its mind to it, we can get you married before you're thirty." "You'll probably have to pass a new law," I say with a giggle. "If that's what it takes," says the president with conspiratorial good humor. Oh, the fun we two have together.

Just remember, stealing's punishable by death