Quotes About Law

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

I know the police cause you troubleThey cause trouble everywhereBut when you die and go to heavenYou find no policeman there

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.

I have always loved the law. It is the very foundation of our great country. It's the exceptional foundation of America.

My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.