Quotes About Law

A stab wound less than three millimeters deep is legal and even encouraged. We cannot help you unless a crime has been committed. Fourteen millimeters or more.

She cried the first time she was pulled over by a cop. I explained to her that there is no reason to cry when getting pulled over--unless you're coming directly from from a crime scene.

We never did hang the wrong one but once or twice, and them fellers needed to be hung anyhow jes' on general principles. -A NAMELESS JUDGE IN THE OLD WEST

Truax held up a business card. Randolph "The Hammer" Tinker Attorney at Law "I nail justice in the face.

when human law comes into conflict with what is moral, human law must be defied.

When facts are treated as if they were opinions, when there is no universal standard by which to determine truth in law, in science, in scholarship, or in the reporting of events of the day, the world becomes a place where lies become true, where people can believe what they want to believe, where there is no possibility of reaching any conclusion not predetermined by those who interpret the official, divinely inspired text.

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

If you're not going to have consequences to a bad decision or to mislead Congress or any other aspect of life, that only incubates people to hatch bigger ideas that are not forthright and not abiding by the law.

I think that the effort to continue to look for some law to somehow make violence go away is missing the point.

The approach I take to legislation a lot of times is that Mississippi has been a state for 198 years, and if we have made it this long without a particular law being on the books, we can probably make it another year without it.

There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan.

Only the mob takes the Fifth.

I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

We protect monopolies with copyright.

Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.

You will find this hard to believe, but I've never laughed as much as I did when I was a corporate lawyer. When you're working 16 hours a day for months at a time, you get punchy. Everything and everyone seems hilarious.

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

Biblical justice is the equitable application of God's moral law in society.

You can't legislate morality.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.