Quotes About Law

Tynan gave the defense two weeks to prepare their case and set a firm court date of May 1 to begin.

Halpin finished his summation on July 21. The people had presented 139 witnesses and 537 pieces of evidence.

The statement that a man or company of men who put their money in a business have a right to operate it as they see fit, without regard to the public interest, belongs to days long since passed away," the congressional report asserted. "Every individual who invests his capital … is entitled to the protection of the law … but he owes something to society.

the difficulty of gaining access to job sites for inspection, and the perennial lack of regulatory law backed by sufficient funding and manpower.

Salvation in Christ does not rest on a law that we inevitably break; it rests on a promise that God cannot break.

In 1979, the Swedish parliament passed a law declaring "A child may not be subjected to physical punishment or other injurious or humiliating treatment.

A child may not be subjected to physical punishment or other injurious or humiliating treatment. PARENTHOOD AND GUARDIANSHIP CODE, SWEDEN 1979

The only good drugs are illegal drugs.

Necessity, like electricity, Is in ourselves and all things, and no more Without us than within us; and we live, We of this mortal mixture, in the same law As the pure colorless intelligence Which dwells in Heaven, and the dead Hadean shades.

Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform principle is almost synonymous with fairness. Uniform application of a detailed rule, on the other hand, will almost always favor one group over another. p. 34

We must abandon our belief that human choice denigrates the Rule of Law.

Automatic law corrodes our freedom

Being dead is a pretty good alibi for anyone who's in trouble with the law, but in Nazi Germany it was an existential hazard.

Je ne suis pas un nazi. Je suis un Allemand. Ce n'est pas la même chose. Un Allemand est un homme qui arrive à surmonter ses pires préjugés. Un nazi, quelqu'un qui les change en lois. (Hôtel Adlon - If The Dead Rise Not)

The U.S. Constitution is considered by Americans to embody the principles of a higher law, to constitute "in fact imperfect man's most perfect rendering of what Blackstone saluted as 'the eternal immutable laws of good and evil, to which the

displaced common law as the most extensive form of law in Britain and it is the most definitive of the four. It takes

Generally included under the generic heading of common law is the judicial interpretation of statute law.

The new law requires you to keep perpetual sabbath, and you, because you are idle for one day, suppose you are pious, not

If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus' gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.

Hanoi was cruel to its own citizens; it was cruel to our citizens; law and human rights are bourgeois concepts for which the Communists in Hanoi had little respect.

Such subjects are the very strength of kings, And are thus above the law.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

No longer can a bailiff come crashing through someone's door in the dead of night. We have banned them from visiting between 9 P.M. and 6 A.M.