Quotes About Law

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

The law always limits every power it gives.

We're all working with one power, one law, it's Attraction

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.

What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.