Quotes About Law

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

With us, love is just as punishable as murder or robbery…

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

en realidad iba directamente al núcleo de la cuestión de cuál debía ser el papel del Gobierno en una sociedad libre. Era tarea del Gobierno establecer un marco de estabilidad —ya fuera estabilidad constitucional, el cumplimiento de la ley, o la estabilidad económica

At that time, a pregnant woman could not get an abortion in Massachusetts -- but a cat could.

He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

What India needs most is a unified food law.

Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.