It’s okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

If life was fair … one third of the people would comprise of judges and lawyers … one third of police and prison officials … and one third of legislators … and one third more...

The law,” he continued, “is made by the rich people so that the poor people can’t get ahead…

The law is a microphone for the voiceless.

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being...

The Bush people really shied away from having the active military do law enforcement,

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key… and bolt...

The deal we made was that if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota – that’s what they wanted, the invitation – if we would change our law to...

It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it,” urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room.That is no excuse,” returned Mr. Brownlow. “You were present on the...

In France we have a law which doesn’t allow the press to publish a photo that you didn’t approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the...

It is better to exist unknow to the law.–Irish Proverb

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed...

He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his own lawyer

Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the...

I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically...

The DID patient should be seen as a whole adult person with the identities sharing responsibility for daily life. Despite patients’ subjective experience of separateness, clinicians must keep in mind that the patient is a...

No one rules if no one obeys

I think there might be a better way,change the law

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar ‘collateral damage.’

Beyond the notion of returning the rule of law to the border, the single most important aspect of this bill is that it does not reward those who have broken the law and does not...

It’s a law which is approved of by Singapore’s inhabitants and which allows us to reduce the drug problem,

You might think otherwise, but it doesn’t naturally follow that because a law has been passed by Congress and signed by the president, said law actually has to be implemented.

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

The law was good, Paul wrote, and its purpose vital. But its purpose was also temporary. Once Christ fulfilled the law, his followers would have trivialized his sacrifice by living as though they were still...

If the norms of international law are violated, then the … embargo will also cease to exist for us.

The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.

We appreciate Chris taking the time to endorse proposals that have already been signed into law by Governor Perry.

This law is so bad and it is riddled with holes.

The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.

Every once in a while I don’t think it’s a bad idea for lawyers to remember that what goes on, at least on some level of our brains, is that we have to imagine everything...

This man is a war criminal, … He is an international war criminal. He’s violated virtually every norm of international law and, if we are going to make international law have an effect, if we...

I could not attend, because under the law the witness is heard without a lawyer.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

That is completely false. One of the first things she did when it became law was to order state agencies to implement the law and they have been doing that.

A judge can’t have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge’s only obligation – and it’s a solemn obligation – is to the rule of law.

We want the repeat sale to show one thing: breaches in the law … will be corrected,

Really, some cases shouldn’t even smell the court room. Screw Habaeus Corpus, lock up the criminal and have the keys thrown away.

There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion. Let it once enter into our civil affairs, our government soon...

Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.

Newman’s first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.

Protectionist measures may permit domestic industries to thrive, which under free trade would wither in the face of cheap imports. Imports may be opposed by the government in the public interest–for example because it thinks...

I don’t need the fame right now; I’m not running from the law.

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital...

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those...

Men who are in prison for rape think it’s the dumbest thing that ever happened… it’s isn’t just a miscarriage of justice; they were put in jail for something very little different from what most...

The creators of the Constitution were not purple-robed scholars, sitting in their ivory towers attempting to put abstract theories into play, but men who had come to realize that their system of government was broken....

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.