Quotes About Law

If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

Man is a magnet, and every line and dot and detail of his experiences come by his own attraction.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.

The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.

A Muslim is a person who follows Allah's laws without question. Sharia is our law. No interpretation is needed, nor are laws made by men. Allah is the only lawmaker.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.