Quotes About Law

Congress in the immigration law gives the president the power to restrict or suspend the entry of people he may deem appropriate.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .

There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law.

The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there's no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.

The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

Non-praying is lawlessness discord anarchy.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

Common sense often makes good law.

The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts

The law does not come wrapped in a tidy, clearly labeled package. Discerning what the law is requires gathering bits and pieces from a variety of sources, sorting them according to their relative weights and relevance... and combining them into as cohesive an analysis as possible." Christina Kunz, popular legal writer