Quotes About Law

I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best series of shows that has been on television.

People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.

By standing still, we're making the things we don't like about Obamacare even worse, forcing Missourians to bear all the costs of this law - and reap none of the benefits.

My number one objective continues to be to defund or delay the implementation of Obamacare. But as long as any piece of this law is standing, it needs to apply to all Americans equally, and that includes members of Congress and our staff.

What we are doing in the Pacific is we're flying, operating, and sailing wherever international law allows, and the purpose of that is to demonstrate that we are standing up for those rules.

I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually.

Remember: sin, even if legalized by man, is still sin in the eyes of God.

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.

We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.