Quotes About Law

Unanimity is important because it signals that the justices can rise above their differences and interpret the law without partisanship.

Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

When I attended a forum on libel reform at the British Academy in 2011, 20 figures ranging from law professors to leading libel law firm, Carter Ruck, from MPs to free speech groups, discussed the issue of corporations. There was unanimous agreement that there needed to be restrictions on the right of corporations to sue in libel.

However unattractive, pre-nups are at least a way round a law that dictates simply because you love someone and share their bed, that person has a claim on everything you own.

I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.

I love the 'Daily Show,' and I think Jon Stewart is hysterical. But literally, the answer to every single problem is, 'Congress should pass a new law.' It's this unbelievably optimistic view of, 'We can pass a law, and then everybody will get along.'

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets.

Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!

Weapons of war have no place on our streets.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

There are laws for peace as well as war.

There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.

Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

In times of war, the law falls s

In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict.