Quotes About Law

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set.

No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

The safety of the State is the highest law.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.