Quotes About Law

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Cualquier cosa que enviemos mental o verbalmente volverá a nosotros en esa misma forma.

He knew she was right. But he could also feel his own conscience stirring. Accusing him of following the law, in lockstep. And marching right past common sense. Katie Evans was dead.

He wants to meet to discuss Abigail's findings. You might have to enforce a whole new law.

precision and clarity where the police

If drugs are out of control, it isn't long before we lose our grip on all crime.

The population had a right to expect that people with a gun and a badge would also have self-control.

No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Sive parens rerum, cum primum informia regna Materiamque rudem flamma cedente recpit, Fixit in aeternum causas, qua cuncta coercet Se quoque lege tenens, et saecula iussa ferentem Fatorum inmoto divisit limite mundum; Sive nihil positom est sed fors incerta vagatur Fertque refertque vices, et habet mortalia casus: Sit subitum, quodcumque paras; sit caeca future Mens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.

Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.

Law firms that thrive in today's market are those whose point of difference is the value they provide to their clients. In other words, it's not about the firm, it's about their customers.

the first lesson: you need to stop thinking of your law firm as a practice and start thinking of it as a business that sells legal products.

To do that, you need to shift your mindset from one that focuses on the practice of law to one that focuses on how the business must work.

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

People without rights are always a menace to social order. Their common interest in removing such barriers unites them; they are prepared to resort to violence because by peaceable means they are unable to get what they want. Social peace is attained only when one allows all members of society to participate in democratic institutions. And this means equality of All before the Law.

The jurist is totally unacquainted with the problem of the value of money; he knows nothing of fluctuations in its exchange-value. The naive popular belief in the stability of the value of money has been admitted, with all its obscurity, into the law, and no great historical cause of large and sudden variations in the value of money has ever provided.

When a country has substituted credit money or fiat money for metallic money, because the legal equating of the over-issued paper and the metallic money sets in motion the mechanism described by Gresham's Law, it is often asserted that the balance of payments determines the rate of exchange. But this also is a quite inadequate explanation. The rate of exchange is determined by the purchasing power possessed by a unit of each kind of money.