Quotes About Law

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

Where there is no common power, there is no law

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.

If she wanted to win a case for first-degree murder, she would have to present more damning evidence than this. Unfortunately, Dan knew Jazlyn wouldn't have brought the charges if she didn't think she could win. And she was usually a good judge of cases.

If man were to live in a state of nature, unconnected with other individuals, there would be no occasion for any other laws, than the law of nature, and the law of God. Neither could any other law possibly exist; for a law always supposes some superior who is to make it; and in a state of nature we are all equal, without any other superior but him who is the author of our being.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen, but in legislation intention is nothing, and the letter of the law everything, and no government has the.