Quotes About Law

I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home.

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

Honor is a harder master than the law.

It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.

Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

Divine Law is not subject nor affected by the majority vote of humanity